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Newsletter September 2015 | |
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I'll check my grammar first |
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Languages with No Future
It's not that some languages are doomed to extinction. It is only that people native to languages without a strong future tense, such as German, tend to be more responsible about planning for the future: they save more for retirement, smoke less, exercise more and eat more healthily. English, in contrast, has a strong future tense, and thus determines a different set of behaviours. Outlandish? Not really: a new CESifo study examines a natural experiment that appears to confirm this deterministic effect of languages.
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The Original Sinn |
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On to the unlikely promised land |
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Germany, Here We Come
It speaks for German redemption that, after having caused so much destruction and grief in the past and having been itself destroyed in the process, generating huge refugee flows keen to get as far away from it as possible, it should now have become a sort of promised land for just about every refugee flooding today into the EU. But, open-armed as it may be, the German welcome will perforce face some limits, as Hans-Werner Sinn explains.
More from and about Hans-Werner Sinn:
Ifo President Favours Interest Rate Hike in the US
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From the Editor |
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Out to devour you |
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Those Ugly Germans
Talk about getting a bad press. Germans just don't seem to get it right. Clobbered for their current account surplus, their stance in the euro crisis, their handling of the refugee crisis, or the bungling of the [fill in blank here] crisis, they could at least point to superb road machines that everyone dreams of laying their hands on. Now that has also gone up in smoke. Literally. Just what we needed.
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Economic Indicators |
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Ifo News |
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The Chart |
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Competitive and dynamic, indeed |
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Gross domestic expenditure on R&D, 1981-2013
Back in 2010, the European Union grandly announced that it intended to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion" by 2010. Not one single bit of that procession of lofty goals ever came close to being accomplished. To kick-start it anew, increasing research and development (R&D) spending would be a good place to try. A new interactive DICE chart shows how the EU countries, and others, are doing in this regard.
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Outstanding Event |
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People |
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Editor: Julio C. Saavedra
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