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Economy 2.0

The Yellow Peril: An Outdated Notion That Still Prevails

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June 18, 2011
The Yellow Peril: An Outdated Notion That Still Prevails

Westerners often depict China as the sleeping dragon (“Chimerica” if you will) that should not be awoken. Indeed, Napoleon’s quote lives on: “Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Here we are in the 21st century. The “dragon” has certainly opened and rubbed its eyes wide while the media...
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Update: Philanthrocapitalism Debate

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April 26, 2010

Devin Stewart contacted me today, and I would like to clarify his position on the subject of philanthrocapitalism. He writes in his speech, available on the Fairer Globalization blog, that Michael Edwards’ approach to philanthrocapitalism is “the inevitable backlash after a decade of exuberance about businessy approaches to philanthropy.” Stewart does not entirely agree...
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Philanthrocapitalism Debate

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April 21, 2010
Philanthrocapitalism Debate

Can Business Really Solve Social Issues? Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at NYU’s lecture hall in the 19 W. 4th Street Building Would you give up Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Freud, Einstein, Plato, Paris, New York, electricity, vaccines, your cell phone, your laptop, your ipod, your perfectly comfortable life for suffering to be eradicated? Such was the...
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UN Millenium Development Goal 1

January 9, 2010
UN Millenium Development Goal 1

Using data from the 2009 United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals Report , I reproduced the graph shown on the left. The data presented is the population of people living on less than $1.25 a day in the years of 1990, 1999, 2005, and the MDG’s 2015 target. In the MDG Report, the graph features under...
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Economics 2.0 – GDP and Per Capita GDP comparison

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December 20, 2009
Economics 2.0 – GDP and Per Capita GDP comparison

A ‘motion graph’ is worth a thousand words. In economics 2.0, researchers as well as journalists have access to a vast amount of information, the challenge is to make sense out of it especially for journalists working under time pressure. This is where Web 2.0 can help. If Data Visualizer does not load within...
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