Wednesday 18 February 2015

Activists 2

The Economist | Activist funds: An investor calls  via @theeconomist

Activists 1

The Economist | Shareholder activism: Capitalism’s unlikely heroes http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21642169-why-activist-investors-are-good-public-company-capitalisms-unlikely-heroes?frsc=dg%7Cd via @theeconomist

Wednesday 11 February 2015

Rules of Success

Teaching Economics

The Economist | Teaching economics: The demand side http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21642158-economics-curriculum-evolving-too-slowly-some-demand-side?frsc=dg%7Cd via @theeconomist

How To Speak So That People Want To Listen

Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen: http://youtu.be/eIho2S0ZahI

Sunday 8 February 2015

In India, a Wave of Farmer Suicides

Bloomberg Businessweek: In India, a Wave of Farmer Suicides. View Full Story: null

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Reforming Islam: Where change comes from

http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2015/01/reforming-islam

Islam will not be scolded, scorned or aerially bombed into reforming by outsiders; it is deeply immune to external pressure. But it can and will change from within, as the founding texts and traditions are reread and refracted by successive generations. Nobody can predict which way that change will go—and there is not just one, single historical path along which it will or won't progress.
 
 

Sunday 4 January 2015

Lessons From Sudan's Haphazard Hudud Model

http://www.iais.org.my/e/index.php/component/k2/item/202-lessons-from-sudan-s-haphazard-hudud-model.html

Saturday 3 January 2015

UBS Tries Old-School Investment Banking

Bloomberg Businessweek: UBS Tries Old-School Investment Banking. View Full Story: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-20/ubs-tries-investment-banking-with-less-risk

Rate-rigging currency markets.