This total has stayed flat at about 500m since 1990 and, the authors think, will barely shift until 2025.
But, unlike the common eurobond proposal, the authors think that turning the EFSF into a bank would at least be legal, under the current treaties governing the EU. It should also be quicker.
The authors habitually think of immigrants filling educationally graded slots in some pre-determined economy.
One usually has to read between the lines to work out what the authors really think.
The OECD does not go in for alternative histories, but presumably the authors of the report think things would have gone better for Iceland if it had been in the single currency.
The four authors also think that cosmopolitan capitalists can police companies and officials better than locals can.
This, think the authors, may indicate that investors take the results more seriously.
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The authors of the report think so.
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Perhaps authors think that the field is crowded, with tomes by Tom Clancy and the more elegant products of John le Carre.
And I think what I tried to do in my book and what I think what the two authors did in their book is they have cornered Barry Bonds.
Papers published by U.S. researchers were much more likely to have had foreign co-authors, which the SciVal analysts think means that the U.S. is more collaborative as well as being a bigger research force.
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The article focuses on luck as a factor of success: the authors found that hugely successful people (think Bill Gates) are no luckier than anyone else.
But a lot of young people seem to think so, and the authors of a study are blaming toys like Barney and other pop influences for that misconception.
"The real problem I think has been that the usual promotion, marketing and publicity plans for authors with big fall books have been thrown completely into disarray for several weeks, " said John Baker, editor of Publishers Weekly.
The authors, Daniel Gros and Thomas Mayer, think the euro area should prepare for fiscal crises instead of trying only to prevent them.
While I'm a big fan of discounting and price competition, I think the responsibility for pricing decisions should rest with authors and publishers.
And we all know that self-publishing is growing by leaps and bounds, but just how well do you think those scrappy upstart authors are doing against the big publishers in sales?
Some authors compare Nokia to Kodak, I think it is almost the opposite.
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Some authors compare Nokia to Eastman-Kodak, I think it is almost the opposite.
The authors also point out that companies have more ways than ever before to find out what their customers think of them.
"I think there's an overwhelming sense of outrage, " said Bernard Bauer, one of the authors of the article.
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