World Bank任命Paul Romer 為首席經濟師
World Bank週一正式任命知名發展經濟學者Paul Romer為下一任首席經濟師,而Romer將於九月接正式就任,取替現任的Kaushik Basu。在任命聲明中,World Bank總裁金墉(김용,Jim Yong Kim)指相當高興該行可以請到像Romer這般卓越的學者,並希望Romer可以協助World Bank找出創新的方法,處理全球貧窮及貧富懸殊問題。
John Nash 係個點嘅Professor?
係Quora上,其中一位曾經跟John Nash做一份Paper的Jon Hersh,分享左同佢生活的一段經驗。
(同A Beautiful Mind入面的羅素高爾,或者唔係好同)
In 2007 I spent a week with John Nash in Barcelona. Ostensibly I was assisting with a paper he was...
聯儲局係咪蝕緊「史無前例」咁多錢?
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Tim Harford 教你講TED talk
Tim Harford推介Chris Anderson的新書《TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking》,並藉著書中內容教大家如何好似TED Talk講者般演講。






