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• JR: WEALTH MANAGEMENT B “Why Focusing Too Narrowly in College Could Backfire”—Students are told learn the subjects that will best land them a job when they graduate. But that could be the worst thing they could do. (By PETER CAPPELLI
  Updated Nov. 10, 2013 4:19 p.m. ET)
  最近流行の「ジェネリック・スキル」と「職務経験」が大切、ということでしょうか。

• TECHNOLOGY: Phones Imperil Fancy Cameras—Shipments of High-End Models Are Falling as Mobile Devices Gain in Popularity (by Juro Osawa, Updated Nov. 7, 2013 7:41 p.m. ET)

• English May Be Losing Its Luster in China (China Real Time Report, November 7, 2013, 8:00 AM)
  日本は26位でフランス（35位）よりも上らしいが

• Japanese Tattoos: From Yakuza to Artisans, Aesthetes (Scene Asia, November 5, 2013, 7:37 PM)
  オリンピックの近づく中、入れ墨をどう取り扱う？

• Elite Grads in Business Flock to Tech: Harvard and Other Elite Schools Look Elsewhere as Finance Loses Its Lustre

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• The Syllable Everyone Recognizes (By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, Published: November 8, 2013)
  Huh?

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• Pay and economic growth: “A shrinking slice”—Labour’s share of national income has fallen. The right remedy is to help workers, not punish firms
• Workers’ share of national income: “Labour pains”—All around the world, labour is losing out to capital
  労働コスト、勤労者の収入が圧迫されていることについて
• Swedish education: “Fixing Sweden’s schools”—Swedish pupils have fallen behind their international peers
  スウェーデンでの教育状況について
• Race relations in the Netherlands: “Is Zwarte Piet racism?”—A debate on a holiday tradition exposes racial attitudes
  オランダにおける「ちびくろさんぼ」のようなお話し？
• Immigration: “A fresh headcount”—Why a new wave of migrant workers could help sustain Britain’s recovery
  イギリスでの移民がもたらす影響について
• Linguistics: “Argot bargy”—Why urban teenagers speak the way they do
  Multicultural London English (MLE)について
• Spies and politics: “Cloaks off”—Foreign alarm about American spying is mounting. But the sound and fury do not always match up
  国家間でのスパイ活動について
• Conjugal visits: “No laughing matter”—Prisons increasingly allow conjugal visits. But not in Britain and America
  受刑者親族の刑務所訪問について
• Business regulation: “Reform school”—The big emerging markets are still much in need of reforms
  国ごと、特に新興国でのビジネス環境について
• Schumpeter: “The butterfly effect”—Charities are irritating but often help companies do the right thing
  NGOや慈善団体が持つ（経済的？）価値について
• Banking and organised crime in Japan: “Of loans and sharks”—A Japanese bank wrestles with lending to gangsters
  日本の銀行による不正融資について（この英国誌がどう見ているか）
• The economics of sexual inequality: “When education dries up”—New research hints at a better method to ensure girls in Africa stay in school
  学校給食プログラムの次の案？
• Free exchange: “No need to dig”—Many of Africa’s fastest-growing economies have not relied on oil or mining
  実は鉱物資源に頼っていないアフリカ
• Animal behaviour: “Wag the dog”—Canines have lateralised brains—just like people
  犬も左右を区別する
• Evolution: “Butterfly ball”—How species separate is still mysterious. Lepidoptera make things clearer
  進化について
• Business, politics and war: “Why a strategy is not a plan”—Strategies too often fail because more is expected of them than they can deliver
  戦略に関する書籍紹介
• Dale Carnegie: “How to succeed”—Folksy tips from the father of self-help in America
  セルフヘルプ本の始祖に関する書籍紹介
• Economic and financial indicators: “Household debt in Asia”
  アジアでの家計の負債について

Issue October 2013 (No. 1310), Le Monde Diplomatique English Edition

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• “Capitalism 101”—Those who escape North Korea for the South by long and arduous journeys must spend three months being re-educated in a discreet training centre. Their lives may thereafter improve, but only marginally.
  脱北者に対して韓国がどのような対策をとっているか。ちなみに”101″というのは、大学において専門分野への導入講義・コースに割り当てられる「講義番号」のようで（例えば”Aeronautics 101″とか）、イメージでいえば”xxx for dummies”のようなものでしょうか。

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• South Korea’s education system: “The great decompression”—There are perils for a country in having all your children working too hard for one big exam
• Education: “The other arms race”—South Korea’s education fever needs cooling
  韓国での学歴・受験競争の加熱について
• Finance in America: “Subterranean capitalist blues”—In response to red tape and high taxes, corporate America is mutating
• The new American capitalism: “Rise of the distorporation”—A mutation in the way companies are financed and managed will change the distribution of the wealth they create
  米国企業の節税、MLP (master limited partnership)などの活用について
• Raising children: “Apps for brats”—American parents snap up apps to make their children less horrible
  米国でどうappsを子育てに活用しているか
• Illegal immigration: “Over the top”—Perhaps half a million people live illegally in Britain. The government’s draconian new immigration bill will not change that much
  英国での違法移民について
• Cash to the poor: “Pennies from heaven”—Giving money directly to poor people works surprisingly well. But it cannot deal with the deeper causes of poverty
  貧困地域への効果的な支援方法について
• Schumpeter: “The Omidyar way of giving”—The founder of eBay aims to be a more entrepreneurial philanthropist than his predecessors
  eBay創業者Omidyarさんによる慈善活動について
• University presses: “Homes for tomes”—An often ignored part of the publishing industry faces unique challenges
  大学出版部について
• Infidelity: “Not so horny”—Cuckolded fathers are rare now, and were equally rare in the past
  …

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• Problems with scientific research: “How science goes wrong”—Scientific research has changed the world. Now it needs to change itself
• Unreliable research: “Trouble at the lab”—Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not
  現代の科学研究研究が直面している問題—Popperも泣いている？ページ下部に挙げてあるfacebook上のページ（動画）も是非見てみて下さい。
• Asset prices: “A very rational award”—Investors can profit from the insights of this year’s Nobel prizewinners in economics
• Free exchange: “Methods for all moments”—The Nobel prize in economics reveals how little we know about the behaviour of markets
  2013年のノーベル経済学賞について
• Infrastructure funding: “Roads less travelled”—Oregon wants to tax motorists for miles driven, not petrol burned. Will it work?
  自動車税で走行距離課金の時代に？
• Press freedom in Japan: “Secrecy and lies”—A tough new law on secrecy has suddenly become controversial
  日本の（ダメダメな）秘密情報管理について
• Electricity: “Edison’s revenge”—The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution. It will make power supplies greener and cheaper
  USBで家庭内のスマートグリッド実現＆直流送電復活へ？
• Solving global problems: “Grey matters”—A report advises on how the world could be better run
  問題解決について
• Business education for lawyers: “Commercial law”—An effort to turn lawyers into creators, not suffocators, of business
  米国ロー・スクールとビジネス教育について
• Taxis and technology: “Tap to hail”—In ever more cities, smartphone apps are reshaping the taxi market
  イギリス発のタクシーappsについて（大阪でも展開）—同様の話しはフランスでも行なわれていると聞いた覚えあり
• Technology and luxury goods: “Catwalk credentials”—Why Burberry’s boss is a perfect fit for Apple
  Appleのブランド化戦略？：BurberryのトップAngela AhrendtsさんがAppleへ
• Buttonwood: “Where there’s money, there’s risk”—Events in America show that no asset is copper-bottomed
  米国債でもデフォルトするかも
• Marine ecology: “Robochop”—An automated jellyfish exterminator takes to the sea
  韓国KAIST発のクラゲ退治ロボットについて
• Human evolution: “Unity or diversity?”—A newly discovered skull suggests that early man was a single species
  人類の祖先について
• Motoring: “A wacky race”—The bizarre microeconomics of British car insurance
  英国での自動車保険料の状況について