‘Satomi Kobayashi and Mikako Ichikawa nosh down on fresh lobster in Naoko Ogigami’s new film, “Glasses.”‘ The Moment, The Post-Materialist | Japanese Food Porn: “(…) eating and sleeping are their reason for living. If sex is curiously absent, it’s because the eating is sex.” The Independent, YAWN: The new yuppies: They’re back – and this [...]
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Trend Management
May 19th, 2008
Tags: economy · environment · food · identity · japan · lifestyle · trend
Horecaprofiel stadsdelen in Amsterdam en het gemiddeld besteedbaar inkomen
April 25th, 2008
Horecaprofiel stadsdelen in Amsterdam en het gemiddeld besteedbaar inkomen per inwoner per jaar. (Amsterdamse horeca: opmars restaurants – O+S)
Tags: amsterdam · economy · food · wining and dining
What Makes a Terrorist
November 14th, 2007
Alan Krueger, What Makes a Terrorist: “Why is an economist studying terrorism? I have two answers. First, participation in terrorism is just a special application of the economics of occupational choice. Some peo ple choose to become doctors or lawyers, and others pursue careers in terrorism. Economics can help us understand why. The second answer [...]
Tags: alan krueger · crime · economy · education · poverty · terrorism
If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call
October 5th, 2007
Mark Pilgrim: If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call “I don’t understand this continuing obsession with buying things that you need to break before they do what you want. (…) My current theory is that it’s some twisted form of wish fulfillment.”
Debtor Nation
August 20th, 2007
Harvard Magazine: Debtor Nation. The rising risks of the American Dream, on a borrowed dime
Tags: business · consumerism · economy · globalization · money · usa
The kimono traders
August 6th, 2007
“Japanese housewives have ditched their traditional subservient image for the world of currency trading – influencing both international markets and Japan’s economy.” Times: The kimono traders (via)
Tags: currency trading · day trading · economy · feminism · japan · stocks
How war was turned into a brand
June 16th, 2007
Naomi Klein: “Israel’s economy isn’t booming despite the political chaos that devours the headlines but because of it.”
Tags: branding · economy · israel · naomi klein · terrorism · war on terror
The Myth of ‘Superstar Cities’
February 20th, 2007
Joel Kotkin: “(…) Yet these triumphs obscure the longer-term developments that continue to reshape metropolitan America. Economic and demographic trends suggest that the future of American urbanism lies not in the elite cities but in younger, more affordable and less self-regarding places.”
Tags: culture · demography · economy · urban · usa