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How the world can escape the new Gilded Age
News, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 25/10/2024
» Tech billionaires such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are not just among the richest people in human history. They also are exceptionally powerful -- socially, culturally and politically. While this is partly a reflection of the social status that our society attaches to wealth in general, that is not the whole story.
At one's convenience
News, Published on 11/07/2022
» Re: "It's all about profit," (PostBag, July 8).
Innovation in an era of debt brake
News, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa and Bruce Gilley, Published on 07/03/2022
» In the 21 years after the Asian financial crisis of 1997, Thailand's government ran a budget deficit 18 times. However, due to ineffective management, excessive fiscal spending did not produce the intended effect of economic acceleration.
2 musical icons pass away
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/10/2021
» Bruce Gaston, the American-born national award-winning music maestro and singer Ronnachai "Aod'' Thomyapariwat, an 80s teen idol, have passed away.
Feeding the beast: Chiang Mai smoke seen as world's climate change problem
News, Dave Kendall, Published on 22/04/2021
» As Earth Day dawns, Chiang Mai is breathing more easily. It's been one of the worst-ever smoke seasons in the Rose of the North, with the city winning the accolade of "most polluted city on the planet" on multiple days, but the dust has settled for now.
Hong Kong students pledge loyalty to Thai protesters
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 25/10/2020
» Hong Kong students have pledged support for the pro-democracy movement in Thailand after the recent wave of anti-government protests has rocked the capital for over a week.
Racism helps keep US safety net in weak state
News, Noah Smith, Published on 01/06/2020
» Last week, the economics profession lost one of its leading lights -- Harvard professor Alberto Alesina. The Italian economist, who died of a heart attack at age 63, helped revolutionise the field of political economy.
Bald pride and the curse of the comb-over
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 26/01/2020
» Last weekend, the Bangkok Post published an entertaining letter from the always perceptive S Tsow, who delivered an impassioned defence of being bald. Mr Tsow, who proudly describes himself as "a person of baldness", was particularly upset after observing on television one of Rudy Guiliani's associates (Lev Parnas) brazenly displaying a "cowardly comb-over".
Wrong turn in the Valley of Windmills
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/01/2020
» At my age, any new sensation tends to either be an ache or a pain, however, on New Year's Day I was up at 6am, which was definitely a ground-breaking feeling. I hasten to add this wasn't because I hadn't made it to bed after a night's revelry. Admittedly in the distant past there might have been several occasions in Bangkok when I've witnessed dawn on Jan 1 before hitting the sack, but we won't go into that.
Record half-tonne Kiwi meth haul 'passed through Bangkok'
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 08/09/2019
» The half a tonne of methamphetamine intercepted by New Zealand's authorities, reported to be the largest ever seizure of the drug at that country's border, is thought to have originated from the Golden Triangle, says the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB).