Waiting for Wolfowitz…
The World Bank President blog is back on the job, with all manner of insider dope on the crisis at the World Bank.
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The Written World
Here’s something to keep you occupied over the weekend. [Will there be a quiz? - Ed] Possibly… The BBC magazine has an short and interesting, but un-embeddable, audio slide-show of Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 five-parter, In Our Time: The Written World. The British Library has more online information about the texts and technology featured in each [...] read our review » -
What has The Third Man got to say about Northern Ireland?
Short answer: very little, other than he enjoyed the environs of Hillsborough Castle, enjoyed working with the local politicians, and has Gerry Adams to thank for Bobby his dog. Peter Mandelson’s book The Third Man has captured media headlines in recent weeks as the Times serialised the most juicy bits. But what did he have [...] read our review »
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Risk of going beyond either/or…
This is article was first published in Fortnight magazine back in February 2003. Chris Farrington is now a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Although the circumstances it describes has changed radically and [...] read our review »
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Cyert and Marsh wrote a paper on agency theory in firms which states that managers manage up to the point and then bring in hidden costs to reward themselves.
During the Asian financial crisis one constituent part of the World Bank could not talk to another because one used Word Perfect and the other Microsoft Word.
Any undergraduate who came up with that excuse would be laughed out of the place but because it is Ph Ds acting the idiot it is perfectly acceptable behaviour.
Get “The Chastening” out od the Library if you want to learn more about this august institution