Maynard

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The wrong system?

Something is wrong at our company. Very, very wrong. I think the whole system needs changing, but nobody else seems bothered about it. So, last week, I tried to introduce a new system.

sich daran zu stören schönen

I am in trouble. Big, big trouble. Not with my colleagues or friends — at least, as far as I know. But with my pet parrot, Maynard, who is named after Britain's most famous economist, John Maynard Keynes.

(zahmer) Papagei

Wirtschaftswissenschaftler(in)

And a happy New Year from him!

Last week, I received a very sweet email from one of our Business Spotlight authors. This is what she wrote: "I wish you and Maynard (assuming he hasn't migrated) a Jolly Christmas and a Merry New Year." Ah, yes, Maynard.

annehmen

auswandern

lustig, vergnügt

fröhlich

Confusion all round

Is it just my imagination, or is the world very confusing at the moment? Some German politicians wrongly think that Canada has intelligence tests for immigrants, while my taxi driver gives me a receipt for a night club. What's going on?

Bilde ich mir das nur ein

Quittung

Getting the bird

Sometimes, you read a news story that is just too good to be true. Not because the news is positive or the story has a happy ending, but because it is so unbelievable that nobody would dare to make it up.

es wagen

ihn/sie/es sich auszudenken

Paul A. Samuelson

There are no prizes for guessing who my favourite economist is — yes, of course, it is my brilliant parrot Maynard. But my favourite economics textbook when I was at school was by someone very different: Paul A. Samuelson.

Ökonom(in), Wirtschaftswissenschaftler(in)

Papagei

Volkswirtschaftslehrbuch

The end of the blog

It's the end of the blog — and this is a sad moment for me. Now, before you start celebrating too loudly, I am not talking about the end of my blog, but of the one written by Willem Buiter, who is now taking up a new job.

annehmen

Sex and the good employer

What would your employer do if he or she discovered that you had previously earned your living as what is now called a "sex worker"? Would he or she support you fully in your position? One employer in Britain did just that.

früher

seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen

Parrot fashion

Maynard, my pet parrot, has been behaving very strangely this past week. If I didn't know him better, I would say he is in love. But there is more to it than that: he believes he has discovered that parrots are better investors than humans.

Hauspapagei (pet = Haustier)

Taxi, taxi

According to my parrot Maynard, most economics questions can be answered with the three words "supply and demand". In Düsseldorf this week, I found yet another example where this was true — the market for taxis.

Papagei

Fragen der Volkswirtschaft

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