Adam Smith gets O'Rourke alternative
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Adam Smith is revered by many as the father of modern economics, but even his biggest fans agree that writing was not his forte.
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By Reuters. Peter Chernin, president of the News Corporation, has signed a new contract that makes it easier for him to take the top job at another publicly traded company.
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No oneâs willing to hazard a guess on interest rates. But all eyes are now on Tuesdayâs mid-term review. Can any banker, bond market trader, corporate treasurer, or economist worth his salt second-guess
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Miliband drinks the Kool Aid Comment David Miliband, the environment minister tipped to be the next Labour Party leader by a friendly Westminster press, says "a new spirit" is afoot in the UK, brought about by Web 2.0.â¦
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The Uefa president gets up to a lot more than we thought according to your efforts. This week's lucky winner is David Squires, who wins a Â£100 bet with BlueSquare. Second prize, Carlton Books's The England Cricket Miscellany, goes to John O'Reilly. Next week we want to see your takes on Lord Coe's Olympic logo shenanigans. Send them to gallery@guardian.co.uk by 6pm on Tuesday June 12 as a jpeg or gif, complete with a TITLE and CAPTION. Anybody who forgets will be made to listen to Sir Alex Ferguson's iPod.
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In a quick post to his blog, Lukas Smith notes his support of the recent announcement of the PEAR elections.   I am confident that both of the proposals will help in improving collaboration in PEAR, mainly because they basically provide the same organization we used to have for all of PEAR (which worked great in the beginning), now for categories of related packages.   He reasons that, since PEAR is such a huge project, it needs this kind of approach - a method to the madness - to help keep the project on the right path.
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Cambridge Antibody Technology&#39;s (Nasdaq: CATG) legal victory over Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) shows that a biotech David can triumph over a pharmaceutical Goliath.
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'I want to provide a public service, not line shareholders' pockets'
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WALTER Smith will pick up a bonus on top of his Â£400,000 salary if he can get Scotland to a major finals. Smith is finally set to be officially confirmed as Berti Vogts&#39; successor at Hampden Park on Thursday
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Iain Duncan Smith could be forgiven for allowing himself to smile over the toast and marmalade when he read The Independent on Sunday poll yesterday showing the Tories trailing Labour by a wider margin than ...
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Russian billionaire pays over Â£25m for treasures Â· Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment
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SCIENTISTS at Sheffield University last week made an unexpected discovery: an alternative to Scotland - s tax-dependent model for commercialising academic research.
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Media & professional: The union leader trying to fend off Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones bid has said plans to find alternative buyers are a 'long-shot'. By Katie Allen.
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Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate in Ukraine&#39;s presidential elections, steered his country away from the Russian ruble to an independent currency as head of the Central Bank from 1993 to 1999.
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Wanted: Brilliant economist. Must be politically savvy, trusted by Wall Street, a strong leader and consensus builder, cool in a crisis, able to calm world markets with a few words and likely to guide the economy into robust health in time for the 2008 presidential election.
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Comment is free: Katherine Rake: With the election of Harriet Harman, Labour has the chance to make equality a core policy.
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Business & money: Stuart Jeffries and  Stephen Moss look at who stands to gain from an economic slump