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Modern History Sourcebook: Wallerstein on World Systems

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:30:18 -0000

Tags: wallerstein economics anthropology history

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The Cognitive Age - New York Times

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:50:06 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

But as Pankaj Ghemawat of the Harvard Business School has observed, 90 percent of fixed investment around the world is domestic. Companies open plants overseas, but that’s mainly so their production facilities can be close to local markets.

Nor is the globalization paradigm even accurate when applied to manufacturing. Instead of fleeing to Asia, U.S. manufacturing output is up over recent decades. As Thomas Duesterberg of Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, a research firm, has pointed out, the U.S.’s share of global manufacturing output has actually increased slightly since 1980.

William Overholt of the RAND Corporation has noted that between 1994 and 2004 the Chinese shed 25 million manufacturing jobs, 10 times more than the U.S.

The central process driving this is not globalization. It’s the skills revolution. We’re moving into a more demanding cognitive age. In order to thrive, people are compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information. This is happening in localized and globalized sectors, and it would be happening even if you tore up every free trade deal ever inked.

The globalization paradigm leads people to see economic development as a form of foreign policy, as a grand competition between nations and civilizations. These abstractions, called “the Chinese” or “the Indians,” are doing this or that. But the cognitive age paradigm emphasizes psychology, culture and pedagogy — the specific processes that foster learning.

Tags: economics globalization opinion cognition

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Sun Micro Records $34 Million Loss

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:51 -0000

Sun Microsystems Inc., citing impacts of the softening U.S. economy, posted a net loss on a slight decline in revenue for its third quarter and announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs.

Tags: sun stock economics recession business

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Worldometers - real time world statistics

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:46:17 -0000

Tags: statistics world population health government

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In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:45:06 -0000

A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Tags: blogging health economics web

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Author Struggles to Stay Removed from Slave Trade : NPR

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:49:22 -0000

With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. This was just one of the difficult lessons writer Benjamin Skinner learned while researching his book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery.

Tags: anthropology economics haiti slavery sociology

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Second Life | Economic Statistics

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:14:58 -0000

Tags: economics secondlife statistics

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Electronic Communities: Global Village or Cyberbalkans

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:53:07 -0000

Tags: communities economics sociology web

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BBC NEWS | Business | Worldsourcing replaces outsourcing

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:03:01 -0000

Tags: business economics globalization international news

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BBC NEWS | Business | Ecuador throws down oil gauntlet

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:29:39 -0000

Tags: economics ecuador news oil politics

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The Bias of Communication, H. A. Innis

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:49:45 -0000

Tags: communication economics media politics theory

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Is U.S. stuck in Internet's slow lane?

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:55:02 -0000

Tags: economics internet politics usa

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Projecting the Economic Impact of the Internet

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:18:47 -0000

Tags: economics future internet

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Social Networks and Economic Sociology: A Proposed Research Agenda For a More Complete Social Science

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:00:12 -0000

Tags: economics networks sociology theory

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Democracy Now! | Oil Giant Chevron Urged to Cut Ties with Burmese Military Junta

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:41:38 -0000

Tags: business chevron economics news oil

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Rice promotes LatAm trade deals

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:52:10 -0000

Tags: business colombia commerce economics latinamerica

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Historical Perspectives on Latin American Underdevelopment, Steven Topik - JSTOR: History Teacher: Vol. 20, No. 4, p. [545]

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:25:40 -0000

Tags: anthropology economics history latinamerica

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World Bank accused of razing Congo forests | Environment | The Guardian

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:50:31 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

It ignored between 250,000 and 600,000 Pygmies believed to be living in the Congolese forests, even though their presence was well known and documented.

· An area of 600,000 square kilometres (232,000 square miles) of forest was earmarked for logging companies.

· The bank failed to address critical social and environmental issues.

The World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world's second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies, according to a report on an internal investigation by senior bank staff and outside experts. The report by the independent inspection panel, seen by the Guardian, also accuses the bank of misleading Congo's government about the value of its forests and of breaking its own rules.

Criticism is made of the forestry reforms that the bank imposed in return for loans of more than $450m. Initially, said the panel, "the bank provided [to the government] estimates of export revenue from logging concessions that turned out to be far too high. This encouraged a focus on reform of the forestry system at the expense of pursuing sustainable uses of forests, the potential for community forests and for conservation.

In a scathing analysis of the bank's economic reasoning, the panel said the bank had "distorted the real economic value of the country's forests" by looking solely at the tax and revenue that increased industrial logging might generate. "There seems to have been little action to support alternative uses of the forest resources," it said.

The panel travelled deep into the forest to take evidence from the Pygmy communities, who told it they were not consulted before the bank launched its wide-ranging forestry reforms.

Tags: anthropology business economics exploitation globalization

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YouTube - Bolivia. Economic situation 1982-1988

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:15:49 -0000

Tags: bolivia economics ksudigg politics video

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Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:15:46 -0000

Tags: anthropology ecology economics globalization politics

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