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In the 1983 movie The Right Stuff, during a test of wills between the Mercury Seven astronauts and the German scientists who designed the spacecraft, the actor playing astronaut Gordon Cooper asks: “Do you boys know what makes this bird fly?” Before the hapless engineer can reply with a long-winded scientific explanation, Cooper answers: “Funding!” If an economist were asked, “Do you know what makes this economy fly?” the answer, in one word, would be “trust.”
The post The wrong stuff: Why we don’t trust economic policy appeared first on OUPblog.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will release an e-book containing the emails from his time in office this week.
Bush is using Amazon’s CreateSpace Independent Publishing platform to publish the work. In the book, Bush includes email conversations between himself, his aides and his constituents alongside reflections on the messages. Here is more from the Amazon listing:
This book tells the story of Jeb Bush’s governorship through his email exchanges with his staff, members of the media and the Floridians he served from 1999-2007. Governor Bush spent 25-30 hours a week using email to stay connected to his mission of being the best leader for Florida he could possibly be. This book illustrates his unique, hands-on leadership style and the tremendous record of achievement he compiled as the governor of America’s 4th largest state.
April 2015 will go down in history as the month that the 2016 race for the White House began in earnest. Hillary Clinton’s online declaration of her presidential candidacy was the critical moment. With it America’s two major political parties have locked horns with each other. The Democrats intend to continue their control of the presidency for another four years; Republicans hope to finally make good on a conservative bumper sticker that began appearing on automobiles as early as the summer of 2009 and that read, “Had Enough Yet? Next Time Vote Republican.”
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