Long before the bank bailouts, academic business economist were talking about a need for flatter hierarchies.
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First of all, the esteemed British business journal The Economist has endorsed the concept, which I first wrote about nearly a year ago.
But Andrew Ang, financial economist and business professor at Columbia Business School, says it might be tough to force banks to stay put.
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In case you missed it, the funds were the subject of front page articles on both Business Week and the Economist over the weekend.
This year, the top prize was shared by Thomas Easton, Asian-business editor for The Economist since 2006, and Virginia Postrel, a Bloomberg View columnist and author.
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Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Business and former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission, accused the Big Three of talking out of both sides of their mouths on trade issues.
Instead, I am an economist and business person and I see an economic mountain looming in front of the U.S. I only wish I could explain why Washington insists on flying straight into the mountain rather than pulling up.
My third guest, Patrick Minford, the veteran economist from Cardiff Business School, thought it was downright silly.
In fact, this would be a good time to call your favorite economist familiar with business, or business analyst familiar with economics.
"It is clear that the economic implosion of several member states continues at a troubling pace, " said the business group's chief economist Graeme Leach.
Keenan chair in finance at the USC Marshall School of Business and served as chief economist of the Securities and Exchange Commission between 2002 and 2004.
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Regarding Chinese investments in U.S. companies, Peter Morici, a University of Maryland business professor and former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission, has a somewhat different perspective.
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No, argues David Moss, an economist at Harvard Business School, in a forthcoming book: the benefits of putting a ceiling on the potential losses faced by shareholders far outweighed the cost of a slightly higher risk of debt default.
Daniel Franklin, co-editor of Megachange: The World in 2050 and business affairs editor at the Economist, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague that "the Armageddon industry makes a lot of noise... but underestimates our ability to adapt and be inventive".
Mr. Goolsbee's nascent dialogue with CEOs is one starting point, despite some lingering business wariness of the new chief economist.
Despite what the president says, Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland's business school and a former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission, feels that the administration and the Fed are clearly worried about a recession--otherwise the central bank wouldn't have slashed short-term interest rates 1.25% since the beginning of the year.
Abdi Farah Shirdon, an economist who ran an import business in neighboring Kenya, was named prime minister Saturday.
But the economic foundations of the north's population expansion are fragile, as Andrew Burrell, an economist at Experian, a business consultancy, points out.
No economist or international business leader, for that matter worth his or her salt would say that being tough on Chinese currency will increase jobs in the United States.
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The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business has claimed top spot in the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2007 ranking of full-time MBA programmes ( full report and methodology).
The 42-year-old Harvard- and Harvard Business School grad rose from being an economist at the World Bank to working at the White House, as chief of staff for then-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
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"These are mind boggling numbers, " said Sung Won Sohn, an economist at the Smith School of Business at California State University.
"This time, they are really touching the vital organs of the economy, " said Robert Tornabell, an economist at Spain's ESADE Business School.
That, says David Henderson, an economist at London's Westminster Business School, leads to unrealistic projections for economic growth and therefore emissions growth.
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After The Economist had gone to press, Business Week unveiled its biennial rankings in an online countdown, prolonging the agony for 30 American and ten non-American elite schools.
Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of the Economist Magazine will moderate.
The chief obstacle to higher growth, Mr Yudhoyono told The Economist, is Indonesia's dismal business climate.
Called the Asia Business Forecast, it starred MIT's celebrity economist Paul Krugman, the noted advocate of exchange controls.
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