Economics

China: Why Western B-Schools Are Leaving (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)

16 May 2008

Cass Business School in London was one of several dozen MBA programs tempted by a seemingly massive and untapped market for management education in China. It started a joint executive education program with the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2004 and has had about 80 students graduate from its two-year program. But the British administrators Cass sent to China grew weary of the ...

Hillbilly economics and the banjo state - Rudd a 'disgraceful elitist': Truss (North Queensland Register)

16 May 2008

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has today failed to deny he implied regional Queensland is home to hillbillies, despite being asked three times to clarify by journalists.

Hybrid economics (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

16 May 2008

When gas was cheaper than bottled water, hybrid vehicles didn't make much economic sense. All that has changed.