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OECD lashes out at university 'conservatism'
Published: Tuesday 31 March 2009Traditional university faculties are too conservative and are standing in the way of progress, as Europe's education system struggles to become more innovative, according to the head of the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation.
If even the stodgy law professors get it, there's hope. Right?
A couple months ago, I thought that President Obama's strategic decision to defer to "safe hands" like Geithner and Summers on macroeconomic matters was wise. I even held out hope that the government would use some of its leverage over the banks to induce them to invest in our future--projects such as green energy, universal broadband, and health information technology that will be perennially neglected by investors obsessed with quarterly earnings. But these hopes are fading as a neo-feudal reality begins to emerge. Whatever their failures, however reviled they are by the public, the potentates at our leading banks appear to believe themselves entitled by divine right to determine what projects get credit and which are denied. Rather than assert the people's prerogative to demand investment that builds a better future for us all, our putatively progressive Treasury Department contorts itself to resist the "nationalization" label--even as conservatarians like Lindsey Graham and Alan Greenspan consider it. Like the Rubin-ites who rolled over Robert Reich and Brooksley Born in the Clinton administration to prevent derivatives regulation, these "centrist" Democrats are pushing the Obama administration into a hollow establishment "consensus" that commands the respect of few outside the Beltway Bubble, Greenwich, and the Upper East Side. For these worthies, we are impertinent even to ask about the long-secret destinations of the AIG money.
Justis
We are conducting a trial of an additional portion of the Justis database. In this case, their version of CELEX, the documents of the European Union. To give it a try, simply go to Justis (you can click on the link above) and, once you are in the database, click on the EU and then search. Please let us know what you think. The trial continues until early April.
New developments in legal publishing result in librarians encouragiong electronic publication of law journals.
About | Statement | Signatories
About
On 7 November 2008, the directors of the law libraries at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, New York University, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, the University of Texas, and Yale University met in Durham, North Carolina at the Duke Law School. That meeting resulted in the "Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship," which calls for all law schools to stop publishing their journals in print format and to rely instead on electronic publication coupled with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in stable, open, digital formats.
Read more about this at the link above.
American Foreign Relations since 1600
32 chronologically organized chapters that combine bibliographies, biographies, and analysis written by scholars in the field, and conclude with examinations of every part of the world or nation addressed by the United States during that period; includes 18,000+ primary and secondary sources that cover the breadth of American history from the 17th century to the present.
As long as you are connected to the Yale network just click for access. If you need information about connecting to the Yale network from off-campus, click here.
You might expect monetary policy to be more forceful. After all, while there isn’t a European government, there is a European Central Bank. But the E.C.B. isn’t like the Fed, which can afford to be adventurous because it’s backed by a unitary national government — a government that has already moved to share the risks of the Fed’s boldness, and will surely cover the Fed’s losses if its efforts to unfreeze financial markets go bad. The E.C.B., which must answer to 16 often-quarreling governments, can’t count on the same level of support.
Europe, in other words, is turning out to be structurally weak in a time of crisis.
This falls for the competency excuse we're hearing so much about. But there's no reason for us to worry about losing these people and their suppoed ability to work through their contracts. The plain fact is AIG is staffed by people who were either incompetent or criminal. Incompetent because they didn't see how what they were doing was unsustainable and destructive in the long run, to their own business and the economy as a whole. I hardly think we need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars - every few months, it seems - to retain utterly incompetent workers. If, however, they weren't incompetent, it means they knew that what they were doing was unsustainable and destructive. They knew their actions would precipitate a huge crisis, and they did it anyway in order to make a fast buck. That's criminal. And I don't see the need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to keep criminals around so they can continue rooting through the contracts of a business they no longer own to see what kinds of fast bucks they can still make.
