Yes, The Economist can be funny...

Networking for introverts: Making the business of meeting strangers marginally less awful

"Bring personal information into the conversation, lest people think you are at a conference on treasury-management software only for commercial gain."

#networking #economist
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/09/07/networking-for-introverts-a-how-to-guide

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/09/07/meet-the-worlds-most-enduring-product

#royalenfield #economist

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-09-05/degrowth-the-awakening-of-consciousness-before-an-alternative/

#Resilience: Carlos Taibo, an #economist from Madrid, who defines the demands for #degrowth as “endless precise fields such as #health and %education, the rural world and #tradeunionism, #cities and #migrations.”
#sufficiency #sharing #subsidiarity

新加坡通訊及新聞部發出嚴厲聲明，斥責《經濟學人》 #Economist 新加坡辦公室主管 Dominic Ziegler 撰文支持當地獨立網媒 Jom，並暗示新加坡是「不自由國家」，構成干預新加坡內政，聲明警告他不要再這樣做。

http://europechinese.blogspot.com/2023/09/blog-post_8.html

Aggravio della pressione fiscale nel 2024 a causa del deficit. Italia, allarme conti pubblici. Il deficit può schizzare al 5%. In Italia il deficit può aumentare ancora fino al 5%, peggiorando lo scenario dei conti pubblici: perché c’è pessimismo e cosa rischia il Governo Meloni con la Legge di Bilancio.

#BancadItalia #Bloomberg #crisieconomica #debitopubblico #Deficitpubblico #Economist #GovernoMeloni #leggediBilancio #talia

https://scienzamagia.eu/sociale-collettivita/aggravio-della-pressione-fiscale-nel-2024-a-causa-del-deficit/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Have you listened to the podcast? That's the discussion I'm interested in. The #economist Richard Wolff indirectly states the economic & political solution to the #ClimateCrisis (near the end of the podcast)

#Economist implies #Ukrainian drone strikes are ramped up to psychologically #terrorize #OrdinaryRussians

https://newstarget.com/2023-09-01-ukrainian-drone-strikes-to-psychologically-terrorize-russians.html

an #economist with an inflation fetish walks into the stock #market

#Economist implies #Ukrainian drone strikes are ramped up to psychologically #terrorize #OrdinaryRussians

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-01-ukrainian-drone-strikes-to-psychologically-terrorize-russians.html

#merch I sometimes get spam touting merch from the #Economist, mugs, planners and whatnot. I once emailed that the one and only merch I would buy is T-shirts with their art-work, like this one for the article "How paranoid nationalism corrupts".
AltText: Silhouette of an angry man waving a flag.
Never got a reply.
https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1280,quality=80,format=auto/content-assets/images/20230902_LDD002.jpg

#economists studying the #useconomy now resemble the parable of The Blind Men and The Elephant!

Nobody knows what's happening with the Citi #economist quoted saying as much.

My take is that a combination of #populism (read #trump and the "hopeless" #republicans), #pandemic, and #putin (again #donaldtrump makes a "guest" appearance here as well) have led to a "bizzare" state of the #american #economy.

AND, that is a PROBLEM for all of us!!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-growth-puzzle-policymakers-could-pose-global-risks-2023-08-27/

"As I look back on my career, I am not too proud to admit that I have occasionally fleeced the odd firm. But I maintain that my profession is a noble one. “Impact”, after all, is our industry’s watchword. (Admittedly, I never was quite clear what it meant, but you cannot deny it sounds lofty.)"

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/08/17/a-retiring-consultants-advice-on-consultants

#Consulting #SnakeOil #Sales #Advice #Business #Economist

Seems a important.
According to The Economist Aug 19th

The International Energy Agency reckons data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption, roughly the same as the entire British economy. That is expected to rise to 4% by
2030.

#energy #computing #datacenters #economist

Seems a important.
According to The Economist Aug 19th

The International Energy Agency reckons data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption, roughly the same as the entire British economy. That is expected to rise to 4% by
2030.

#energy #computing #datacenters #economist

The #Economist is brutal towards #Germany today.

"twenty-five years ago this newspaper called Germany the sick man of the euro." 😞

"For years Germany’s outperformance in old industries papered over its lack of investment in new ones." 👊

"investment in information technology as a share of gdp is less than half that in America and France." 🤑

"country has, in a spectacular own goal, turned away from nuclear power." ⚛️

"Berlin cannot fill even half of its vacancies for teachers." 👨‍🏫

Yikes

- Impact on unemployment rates might be different than we expect: countries with high robotics and automation have lowest unemployment rates
- Job destruction happens slowly. It took 90 years before automatic telephone switching completely replaced human telephone operators.
- Just like other information technology, generative AI could have positive AND negative impact on productivity.

#llms #generativeai #chatgpt #ai #impact #economics #society #labor #labormarket #economist

The Economist on the economic impact of generative AI.

Article: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/05/07/your-job-is-probably-safe-from-artificial-intelligence
Archived copy: https://archive.is/d3to7

#llms #generativeai #chatgpt #ai #impact #economics #society #labor #labormarket #economist

If you grow a "non-valuable crop" to feed your people and are not trying to profit from it, then you are clearly a bad government that is not in line with Western values.
The #Economist, the #neoliberal Bible said so..

Hello 👋 I’ve recently moved so here is a new #introduction. I’m an academic working on #regional development and #governance. I’m especially interested in #migration, #urban planning, #labour, and more recently #participatory democracy. I’m an #economist by training but now do mostly #interdisciplinary work with colleagues in #geography #sociology and #philosophy. My hobby is #photography especially #macro and #landscapes, although I struggle to find the time. This is my crazy #dog Fonzie!

My wonderful post-doc, health #economist Julia Dennett talks on her paper on the long-term effects of #OxyContin marketing in America. #harmreduction #causalinference #epidemiology #publichealth

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hp20230731.712412/full/