Jobs and economy (page 382)

You’ve seen the movie. (Actually, it’s a pair of rap videos.) Now you can read the book. Nicholas Wapshott’s latest effort documents “the clash that defined modern economics.” That’s the description he assigns to the long-running debate between John Maynard Keynes…

Media outlets have tended to cover the Occupy movement as a left-of-center version of the Tea Party Is that an accurate characterization?. Jon Ham dissects the coverage during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. John Hood reacts to Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger’s recent comments about…

On the front page of the New York Times* and the Chronicle of Higher Education today is a story about Chinese students in American universities. Much of the story is about the troubles that both sides are having with the relationship: the Chinese are sometimes getting ripped off…

In a post on Community College Spotlight, Joanne Jacobs pulled an interesting quote from Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Apple had 700,000 factory workers employed in China, he said, and that was because it needed 30,000 engineers on-site to support those workers. ‘You can’t…

Since the president and his allies have taken to blasting “fat cats at the top” while the occupiers rail against the “1 percent,” Victor Davis Hanson devotes his latest National Review Online column to exploring the lives of those who “occupy” that dreaded class.

In Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers, Jason Richwine and Andrew Biggs conclude that “public-school teacher salaries are comparable to those paid to similarly skilled private sector workers, but that more generous fringe benefits for public-school teachers, including greater job security, make total compensation 52 percent greater than fair…

The latest TIME reminds us that Steve Jobs was able to become a great success after he switched gears from his economic failures: We forget now how early and how spectacularly Jobs succeeded–when Apple went public in 1980, Jobs netted $256 million–and also how…

In his latest Ideas Matter update, Max Borders focuses on a vexing question: What’s the best way to explain to people that recessions are good for us? Johan Norberg says, we have gone on too long confusing the symptoms with the pathology. Actually, he…