Гендерные квоты
Gender quotas
The spread of gender quotas for company boards
WHEN Norway introduced a 40% quota for female directors of listed companies in 2006 …Read More
Секс, ложь и статистика
Sex, lies and statistics
Laying bare supply and demand in the oldest profession
“IT’S hard out here for a pimp,” complains the Three 6 Mafia, a rap group …Read More
Новый мировой порядок
Human evolution
A group of people with an amphibious life have evolved traits to match
THE Bajau, a people of the Malay Archipelago, spend …Read More
Нарциссизм. Познай своя селфи
Narcissism. Know thy selfie
It is time to stop invoking narcissism in the diagnosis of so many modern ills. Self-love has its virtues
WAS Narcissus a narcissist? Arguably not …Read More
Монополия против Шахмат
Monopoly v chesst
The problem is that America, the EU and Russia do not quite understand the terms of «winning» and «losing» in the same fashion
TYLER COWEN had an interesting piece in the New York Times over the weekend arguing …Read More
Планетарные Плутократы
Planet Plutocrat
The countries where politically connected businessmen are most likely to prosper
AMERICA’S Gilded Age, in the late 19th century, saw tycoons such as …Read More
Метафизики
Metaphysicians
Sloppy researchers beware. A new institute has you in its sights
“WHY most published research findings are false” is not, …Read More
Домашний фронт
The home front
The countries where politically connected businessmen are most likely to prosper
NOBODY, apart from Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, knows what …Read More
Американские и российские медиа
Media in America and Russia
Inmates running the asylum — The firms bankruptcy is much more than the story of a partnership gone wrong
A FEW years back, at an international media conference, a Russian reporter …Read More
Банкротство Дью́и и ЛеБо́ф
Dewey & LeBoeuf’s bankruptcy
Inmates running the asylum — The firms bankruptcy is much more than the story of a partnership gone wrong
IT WAS always an awkward coincidence that the cousin of Steve DiCarmine, …Read More
Как Запад может помочь
How the West can help
The turmoil in Ukraine is a chance for the West to prove that it is still a force for good
A MAN goes bankrupt, Ernest Hemingway wrote …Read More
Приближаясь к войне
Edging closer to war
Armed men seize Crimea’s airports and television tower, before overseeing the election of a new, pro-Russia local government
RUSSIA and Ukraine have edged closer to a military confrontation after …Read More