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Excerpt from Foreign Affairs -- "Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Jonathan Tepperman interviews Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence on current trends in unemployment, government spending and policy, the speed of globalization, and Obama's options for a troubled economy." Additional coverage appeared in ipolitics360.com.

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "In "Crisis Economics," Roubini teams with professor Stephen Mihm to discuss the ongoing financial crisis, providing context and assessing the risks and opportunities that policymakers now face." Additional coverage appeared in FirstPost.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- “Computers couldn’t ID humans in the photo ... but humans couldn’t know the context.”

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "...Italy may, like other periphery countries, need to exit the monetary union and go back to a national currency, thus triggering an effective break-up of the euro zone."

Excerpt from The New Yorker -- "Up steps Lawrence White, of N.Y.U. ... White gives a good account of himself, getting in jabs at Steve for bucking the market and me for failing to read all of 'Prices and Production,' Hayek’s 1931 tract." Additional coverage appeared in Reuters blog and The Daily Beast.

Excerpt from Barron's -- "Given the results of Profs. Baker and Wurgler's research, this strongly suggests that corporate managers view their debt as being overvalued and their equity undervalued."

Excerpt from The Washington Post blog -- "It’s much easier for regulators to write complex rules than simple rules."

Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Fashion, technology, energy and a very wealthy private and corporate sector -- which Greece does not have, and there's no chance for a country to survive over the long run without some sort of competitive advantages."

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- “Once you start micro-managing the data looking for patterns, you will find them simply because there is so much data that there have to be patterns."

Excerpt from VoxEU.org -- "Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims gave us a coherent framework with which to think about and discuss these critical policy issues. And they fully anticipated the difficult dilemmas we now face as a consequence of recent fiscal policy."  Additional coverage appeared on Wall Street Pit.

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Visionary politics from both the left and right has caused deadlock in our legislative system. And, given eminent domain, public goods and free rider issues, plus the American love of a bureaucratic planning wrangle, we couldn't get politics out of infrastructure even if Ron Paul were king." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "I think that the claim that anybody who favors higher taxes is morally obliged to pay more than they legally owe shows a fundamental misconception about the basis for the social compact we call government." Additional coverage appeared in AllVoices, Reuters, CNNMoney, ABC News, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams.org, enewspf.com, Accounting Today, Afro.com and ThirdAge.

Excerpt from International Business Times -- "Marciano pointed out that in this economy, it may be politically toxic to approve of a merger that would lead to significant job cuts."

Excerpt from MacCleans -- “He’s a walking example of innovation, differentiation, value-adding and the bizarre. ... These are exactly the things we teach business students to do.”

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- "When Peck Slip opens in 2015, the neighborhood’s overall school capacity will be four years behind its demand, according to Eric Greenleaf, a professor of New York University’s Stern School of Business and an active member of NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force."

Excerpt from Foreign Affairs -- "As development economist Daniel Altman recently explained, in a global economy, 'these people are your consumers, your workers, your investors.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The fundamental difficulty throughout has been the failure to understand the nature of the crisis. Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business makes the relevant points in a recent paper."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Tulin Erdem, a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, said the campaign tried to keep up 'with the times without sounding too trendy,' while 'mocking lightheartedly the soap industry.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- “If Indonesia is going to grow, it is important that this increasing demand is met by supply. It needs more investment in infrastructure, but also in human capital."

Excerpt from O'Reilly Radar -- "The problem with sentiment analysis ... is that it tends to be rather generic, and it's not customized to the context in which people read." Additional coverage appeared in Forbes

Excerpt from Huffington Post -- "Chang acknowledges his work is grounded on welfare economics and market failure theories; he cites Joseph Stieglitz, Amartya Sen and William Baumol among his influences."

Excerpt from Estadao -- "Banks are liquid and solid, the country has grown well in recent years, and the administration of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was a significant reduction of social inequity from the improvement in income distribution, with the increased generation of jobs (translated from Portuguese to English)."

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "Previous Bastiat Prize winners were: ... 2002: Sauvik Chakraverti (Economic Times, India) and Amity Shlaes (The Financial Times). ..."

Excerpt from The New York Times Paul Krugman blog -- "The international experience of 'internal devaluations' is mostly one of failure. Argentina tried the deflation route to a real depreciation and, after three years of an ever-deepening recession/depression, it defaulted and exited its currency board peg."