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Easterbrook's new book, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, will be published in December
...Take that spectacular 3.9% annualized second-quarter growth rate. In a pair of reports entitled The Paradox of Deflation and The Paradox of Deflation Solved, HSBC Securities senior economist Peter Morgan concludes that Japan's gross-domestic-product figures are increasingly skewed by discrepancies in how price changes for different types of goods (particularly computers and other information-technology products) are calculated, thereby creating significant distortions. "This suggests that official GDP data are substantially overstating economic growth," he writes. Morgan's own second-quarter GDP-growth estimate is just 2.1%. "Things may not have been as bad as everybody thought...
...published The Paradox of American Power last year and earlier this month won an award from the American Political Science Association for the body of his academic work...
...there is this paradox about it: it's one of our most reliable sources of laughter, the subject of, just last year, some of our most interesting and weirdly entertaining movies. Punch-Drunk Love, Adaptation and About Schmidt are all bleak comedies about emotionally stunned or stunted people trying, in their herky-jerky ways, to avoid a completely comatose condition...
Call it the parent paradox: many of us love and respect the couple who reared us yet also resent the hell out of them. But social psychologist Susan Newman, author of Nobody's Baby Now (Walker & Co.), exhorts adult children to build a meaningful friendship with Mom and Dad. In researching her book, Newman interviewed 150 adults, ages 27 to 55, to investigate the tension between parents and children as they grow older. TIME spoke with Newman about barriers to a friendship with your folks and why it's critical to overcome the hurdles...