Economic (and financial crisis) links

[erudito]

Eros is driving the ebooks boom.

A new approach to restaurants that is wrong at so many levels …

Study suggests that popularity at school is income positive.

Arguing that government providing schooling is mostly about controlling the socialisation of students. (Having the regulator be the provider is not how you would do it on either quality of

Comments

[taavi]

"Since 1980"? How would you describe 1946-1973?

Recessions

[erudito]

Have a look at Krugman's talk, the US economy had more recessions than we tend to remember.

People were so impressed by the postwar boom, it tends to get a bit oversold. Though the per capita growth rates overall were impressive, particularly in Japan and Western Europe. Of course, one might argue that 1973-82 was, in its way, the result of a presumption of growth.