Tag Archives: good reads

Weekend reads: Conspiracy theories and political parties (May 23)

23 May

  How conspiracy theories explain political parties (Vox Video) The Role of Elites in Holocaust Denial (Upshot) Here’s the handy Twitter guide for telling if your country just had a coup (Vox) Gita Gopinath and Iqbal Dhaliwal believe that Narendra Modi’s new government should focus its agenda on five areas (Project Syndicate) These ‘Signs from […]

Weekend reads: algorithms in company boards and job hunting (May 16)

16 May

  A Venture Capital Firm Just Named An Algorithm To Its Board Of Directors — Here’s What It Actually Does | Business Insider (Business Insider) Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview (Guardian) Putin Screwed Up – Ukraine built about 600 of Russia’s ICBMs carrying about 5000 […]

Weekend reads: Sex, lies and recession (May 10)

10 May

We launch a new feature: we will post a list of good reads each weekend. Enjoy.   The vast influence of Gary Becker (Vox) Where people have the best sex, the worst sex, and the most STIs (Vox) The economics of adultery (Wonkblog) 10 years EU enlargement anniversary: Waltzing past Vienna | Zsolt Darvas (Bruegel) […]