var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/09/are-pizza-and-soda-price-elastic/’,size:‘large’} A team from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seems to think so:
U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing […]
Are Pizza and Soda Elastic?
March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Politics, Science
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Book Review: “Inbound Marketing”
March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Business, Culture, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Technology, The Boston Globe, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/book-review-inbound-marketing/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — If you build it, they will come. And by “it,” the authors of “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs” mean a quality online-presence supported by effective Internet-marketing.
In the olden days of marketing — say, before 2000 — most marketers and public-relations professionals used […]
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Types of Bosses
March 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Personal
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/types-of-bosses/’,size:‘large’} As I wrote in a prior post, I have had extremely horrible bosses in the United States, Europe, and Israel. Now that I own a consulting business and have to deal with Excel spreadsheets, payrolls, and financial analyses, I can see the other side of the coin.
There are many articles […]
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New Economics Post
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Britain, Business, Economics, Europe, Finance, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/07/new-economics-post-2/’,size:‘large’} I just published a new post on the Return of the Great Depression blog: “The EU’s Sovereign Debt Crisis.”
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Speak Hebrew, Not Yiddish
March 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Britain, Business, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/speak-hebrew-not-yiddish/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Whenever I hear American or European Jews speaking Ashkenazi Hebrew on the bus or in synagogue, I go nuts. And I shake my head at the growing popularity and revival of Yiddish among some Western Jews:
Although no one knows exactly how many Yiddish speakers there are […]
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Life in Israel
March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Israel, Judaism, Liberal Pundits, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/life-in-israel/’,size:‘large’} People always ask me what it’s like in Israel. Since I don’t usually have hours to respond with a nuanced, lengthy discussion, I normally boil it down to one sentence: “This country is the perfect combination of heaven and hell.”
Bradley Burston, a local columnist, puts it another way: “Living in […]
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New Economics Post
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Immigration, Law, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/04/new-economics-post/’,size:‘large’} I’ve published a new post at the Return of the Great Depression blog on how the growing economic crisis in the European Union may fracture the nascent sense of continental unity.
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Marriage — Brain or Heart?
March 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Egypt, Feminism, India, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/marriage-brain-or-heart/’,size:‘large’} Ninth in an ongoing series of essays
BANGALORE, India — While I was traveling to the Silicon Valley of the East in December 2006 with my Suffolk University M.B.A. class in Boston to study business there for a week, I popped into a local tourist trap to look at some […]
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Marketing Mossad
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Culture, Israel, Law, Marketing, Politics, The Middle East, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/02/marketing-mossad/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — I just received an e-mail advertisement from the Jerusalem Post containing this subject line: “Support the Mossad! Exclusive T-shirts Offers!” (The grammar mistake was there as well.) Only $12.
Add this to my “Only in Israel” file. I can only presume it’s a response to the controversial assassination of […]
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New Economics Blog
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Israel, Personal, Politics, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/01/new-economics-blog/’,size:‘large’} I am now a co-blogger on European and Middle East economics at the website in support of “The Return of the Great Depression” by libertarian, Austrian-school economist and political pundit Vox Day (blog, column archive).
Of course, I have complete freedom to write what I want, so I encourage my […]
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Journalism is a Business
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Humor, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/28/journalism-is-a-business/’,size:‘large’} Media Matters for America, a liberal, media-watchdog organization, reflects on how Fox News covered the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
On the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Fox & Friends purported to analyze the results of the bill […]
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Christian Israel
February 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Christianity, Culture, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/27/christian-israel/’,size:‘large’} The Jerusalem Post has unveiled a revamped website with a Christian section that contains this interesting article: “Will Israel Obey God or Man?”
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Redundant, Oppressed Men
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Health, Israel, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics, The Middle East
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JERUSALEM — The first of a five-part British documentary on the state of men and manliness in modern, Western society:
Men and masculinity are being marginalised. Manly virtues are laughed at, even considered dysfunctional. Men are being edged out of the family, the workplace and wider society as […]
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The Israeli Arse
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Humor, Israel, Judaism, Religion, The Middle East
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Since Israeli is a collection of so many people from so many cultures and countries, people here love to poke fun at each other (and themselves). “Arsim” is a (plural), stereotypical, derogatory term for a certain subculture of Mizrahi Jews, those who came to Israel from the neighboring Arab […]
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Advertising or Porn?
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Europe, Journalism, Marketing, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/advertising-or-porn/’,size:‘large’} A new French advertisement aimed at stopping teenagers from smoking is drawing some controversial marketing buzz:
A new French antismoking advertisement aimed at the young that plays off a pornographic stereotype has gotten more attention than even its creators intended, and critics suggest that it offends common decency […]
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