Home
JimC Rast's Library tagged → View Popular
30 Aug 09
Company size: Big is back | The Economist
-
America’s economy has been more dynamic than Europe’s in recent decades not just because it is better at giving birth to companies but also because it is better at letting them grow. Only 5% of European Union companies born since 1980 have made it into the list of the 1,000 biggest in the EU by market capitalisation. In America, the figure is 22%.
07 Aug 09
FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Outside Edge: Learn to love that statistical feeling
-
I am a non-statistician who deals with statistics and statisticians frequently, and in my view statisticians are unsung heroes. Statistics are essential to understanding the world, but statisticians get little credit.
06 Aug 09
Fouad Ajami: New U.N. Report Says Autocracy Has Led to the Decline of the Arab World - WSJ.com
Astounding failure of Islamic culture to raise up their peoples as China and India are doing.
-
So all Arabs combined had a smaller manufacturing capacity than Finland with its five million people, and a vast Arabic-speaking world translated into Arabic a fifth of the foreign books that Greece with its 11 million people translates. With all the oil in the region, tens of millions of Arabs were living below the poverty line.
Selected Tags
Related Tags
Sponsored Links
Ads by Google
Top Contributors
Groups interested in numbers
Related Lists on Diigo
-
Math
Items: 49 | Visits: 46
Created by: kristi johnson
Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »
Join Diigo