BLOG… Post #49 – “I’m Not a Scientist, But…” 13 Oct 201427 Feb 2017 The People’s Climate March in New York City and (so it was declared) in 155 other countries has come and gone. Climate change, unfortunately, parades on. While people marched—an estimated…
BLOG… Post #39 – What Works? Microfinance: Financing Dignity 11 Aug 201427 Feb 2017 Back in the 1970s, Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh had a brilliant idea. He would found a bank to provide seed money to poor people who otherwise would have no way…
BLOG… Post #36 – What Works? Person- and Planet-centered Development 22 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 The usual script for international development is the provision of aid—mostly in loans, occasionally in outright grants—by a “developed” country or international institution to an “underdeveloped” one. The money goes…
BLOG… Post #28 – What Works? Saving Young Lives 17 Jun 201427 Feb 2017 While living in Tokyo back in 2001, my attention was captivated by a US public television program on a cardiovascular surgeon in Phoenix who was making annual trips to Sri…
BLOG… Post #21-Take the Money and Run: The Privileged World of the Multinational Corporation (Part 1) 12 May 201427 Feb 2017 Another tax season has come and gone, and most of us—good citizens that we are—have sighed and paid our share. But how many of us are aware that there’s a…
BLOG… Post #12: Some Footnotes on Inequality 3 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 Readers have raised issues related to the two previous posts on inequality. Here are my responses: 1. Definitions of middle and upper class. There are economists' answers and sociologists' answers,…
BLOG… Post #10: Inequality: Pretense and Reality, Part 2 28 Mar 201427 Feb 2017 Let’s not forget to keep an eye on another place where inequality is being abetted. The outstanding economist Joe Stiglitz has written a powerful critique of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which…
BLOG… Post #9: Inequality: Pretense and Reality (Part 1) 28 Mar 201427 Feb 2017 The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has recently come out against rising income inequality. Imagine, a leading figure in global finance actually acknowledged that “rising inequality…
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