Creative capitalism? - 20-08-2008 03:09
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By Clive Crook
The most frustrating thing about the debate Bill Gates has started is that the term “creative capitalism” is so vague. It covers so many different sorts of activity that it resists a simple up or down vote. Rather than yielding to the temptation to come out for or against Bill’s claims about creative capitalism, it might be more productive to make a few distinctions among the different ways the idea could be put into practice, sometimes with good results, sometimes not so good."
http://creativecapitalism.typepad.com/creative_capitalism/2008/08/a-creative-capi.html
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Back from Indonesia, some posts from other blogs - 12-08-2008 02:38
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Back from a one week holiday to Indonesia. It's a beautiful place, well worth visiting for its great climate and environs, and its damn cheap too.
Anyways, wanted to post to:
"The Doha trade talks failed this week...and Dani Rodrik asks
so what? In his view, the probable gains from this further trade liberalization were not significant. I would add that at least in some sectors, formal trade liberalization is becoming increasingly irrelevant. The internet has created the possiblity for ever greater amounts of trade in services that are largely under the radar of the World Trade Organization and, to some extent, government tax collectors..."http://psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/2008/08/asdf.html
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Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids - 01-08-2008 05:00
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Justin Wolfers:
"Many teachers believe that a “few bad apples” can spoil a whole classroom, reducing the learning of everyone in the room. While this is part of the folk wisdom of teaching, it has been surprisingly difficult to find these effects in the data.
But a very convincing new paper, by Scott Carrell of U.C. Davis and Mark Hoekstra of U.Pitt, “Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids” (available here), suggests that these effects can be pretty big."
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/externalities-in-the-classroom-how-children-exposed-to-domestic-violence-affect-everyones-kids/
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US election 08: dirt dirt dirt? - 01-08-2008 03:05
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Looks like sledge and wedge will be in the upcoming US elections:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4843247
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Free Trade Agreements that are anti-trade - 31-07-2008 02:18
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Peter Martin blog: collapse of Doha = countries "one on one" making agreements, that aren't really free. More importantly:
"Australia's Trade Minister Simon Crean who has been working 18-hour days in Geneva in an attempt to ensure there is a global trade agreement described what a world would be like without one a few months ago.
“It would be a world built around preferential trade blocs, further favouring large powerful nations at the expense of smaller ones. Small countries would be locked out of deals with major trading partners and left to languish,” he said.
“It would be a world where the benefits of trade are not shared widely, where trade is heavily distorted, and where the economic performance even of major trading nations is constrained by reduced opportunities to exchange goods and services.”
We don't require minorities to bargain for their human rights for instance, why should 'weak' countries have to bargain for equal treatment regarding market access?
http://petermartin.blogspot.com/2008/07/free-trade-agreements-that-are-anti.html
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US House of Reps apologises for slavery - 30-07-2008 06:10
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"The US House of Representatives has apologised to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors under slavery and segregation laws."
From AAP:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4838022
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