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John Gray: A shattering moment in America's fall from power | Comment is free | The Observer
Thoughts on the broader meaning of the U.S. financial meltdown.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/usforeignpolicy.useconomicgrowth
International Business Directory, Computers and Internet, Investment, Business Brokers
All the information you need for international business, investment, international travel, import and export, business brokers, retail and consumer trade anywhere in the world.
airports, asia, business, career, computer, corporation, directory, distributors, employment, europe, More... saved by: thang more details ...
http://www.internationalbusinessdirectory.com
Submit Site, Web Directory, Shopping, Education, Health, Business and Economy
GreatFolder.com is a web directory of general resource and information related to education, law, business, real estate, art, shopping, travel, computers, government, insurance, society, ...
airport, art, automotive, beauty, business, career, category, city, computer, corporation, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.greatfolder.com/submitsite.htm
The New Geopolitics of Energy
Rarely has a policy choice been as stark or as momentous for the future of our country.
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/klare
WorldChanging: International Agricultural Assessment: We Need a Paradigm Shift
A commission of international agriculture experts unveiled a series of reports on Wednesday calling for an end to "business-as-usual" farming practices to avoid widespread environmental d...
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007979.html
It's a Flat World, After All
Only 30 years ago, if you had a choice of being born a B student in Boston or a genius in Bangalore or Beijing, you probably would have chosen Boston, because a genius in Beijing or Banga...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03DOMINANCE.html?pagewanted=1
By the Numbers: The Wal-Mart Dilemma, File Sharing and Lousy Service
At a micro level, customers are starting to flex their muscles and their creativity and working their way around market-distorting behaviours of obstinate and dysfunctional corporatists.
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/05/17.html#a1149
The yuan might shift; the imbalances won't
To maintain global growth, the United States must consume and borrow ever more while foreign banks buy ever more U.S. Treasuries so their producers can export ever more.
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http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/05/31/opinion/edprest.php
The Coming Process Commoditization Wave
Outsourced processes will become a commodity, and prices will drop significantly. The low costs and low risk of outsourcing will accelerate the flow of jobs offshore, force companies to r...
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http://123suds.blogspot.com/2005/06/coming-process-commoditization-wave.html
Stephen Roach's three forces of Globalization
Three new mega-forces are now at work in driving today's uniquely powerful strain of globalization: [The global labor arbitrage, the global price arbitrage, the global saving arbitrage.]
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http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/2005/06/stephen_roachs_.html
Profits, Not Jobs, on the Rebound in Silicon Valley
Changes in technology and business strategy are raising fundamental questions about the future of the valley, the nation's high technology heartland. In part, the change is driven by the ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/business/03valley.html?hp&ex=1120449600&en=c04ec8df95ee2e2...
How Powerful Is Productivity?
The secret enemies to globalization -- in particular to this foreign direct investment -- are the local domestic producers.
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/061705A.html
Offshore Labor Markets
... dynamic changes that are going on in major offshore locations in terms of talent development or the growth of competitive pressures that will make MNCs more willing to undertake signi...
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http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2005/06/offshore_labor_.html
Is America the World's 97-lb. Weakling?
Respectable analysts believe it’s possible—not certain, but possible—that the U.S. standard of living, after decades of steady ascent, could stall or even begin to decline.
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http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,1081269,00.html
It will pay to be creative, nimble in the 'conceptual age'
The people who will do best in this economy are those who don't just take and give orders but also move smoothly between boundaries, like the technical guru who understands marketing or t...
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http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/climb/archives/071005.shtml
Pandemic of Brainlessness
Today's transient global economic relations are a product of very special transient circumstances, namely, relative world peace and absolutely reliable supplies of cheap energy.
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http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2005/07/pandemic_of_bra.html
Confronting the Offshoring Challenge
Rather than viewing themselves as narrow efficiency engines, companies need to re-conceive their roles in terms of accelerating capability building.
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http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2005/07/confronting_the.html
Asian Energy Demand is U.S. Demand
The great demand for energy from the east isn't native demand in terms of consumers, but merely from energy-intensive factories churning out goods for our consumption.
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http://www.thestalwart.com/the_stalwart/2005/11/asian_energy_de.html
Indian Steel and Egyptian Cell Phones
[Non-western companies] are buying companies run by Europeans and Americans who are, in many cases, certainly not the best and the brightest. Otherwise, their firms wouldn't be in such po...
acquisition, execution, globalization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2136063
The Power of the New Oligopolies
It is not the Chinese who destroy US and European jobs, ...[it is the] the world’s largest traders and retailers [who] pit producer against producer.
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http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/02/the_power_of_th.html
Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?
Economists who insist that "offshore outsourcing" is just a routine extension of international trade are overlooking how major a transformation it will likely bring -- and how significant...
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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060301faessay85209/alan-s-blinder/offshoring-the-next-indust...
Foreign Direct Investment Behavior of Multinational Corporations
Despite the obvious importance of FDI and MNCs in the world economy, research on the factors that determine FDI patterns and the impact of MNCs on parent and host countries is in its earl...
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http://www.nber.org/reporter/winter06/blonigen.html
The box that changed the world
Containerization grew through cracks in the rigid regulatory structure. But today's fully integrated systems became possible only after trucking and rail were deregulated in the 1970s and...
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http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002097.html
Class, Education, and Meaning Manufacture
I’d like my kids to be educated not just to show up on time, effectively navigate bureaucracy, and compete well in social word/power games, but to creative and entrepreneurial with the ...
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http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/04/18/class-education-and-meaning-manufacture
The Asian giants and the brains bazaar
For the US and Europe, increasing the numbers of science and engineering graduates seems a policy prescription for economic despair. Creative differentiation - not competitive confrontati...
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7978fcfc-e3ae-11da-a015-0000779e2340.html
Open Source Curriculum Development
Contributed to by thousands of people, constantly growing, evolving, and customizable for use, [projects like Linux and Wikipedia] are powerful examples for us of how curricula can and sh...
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http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/2006/06/open_source_cur.html
Innovation and Privatization
the for-profit model can and does work well --often far more efficiently than the traditional, bureaucratic, less competitive, model that dominates American higher education.
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http://collegeaffordability.blogspot.com/2006/08/innovation-and-privatization.html
Heads Up: China To Be #1 Wind Turbine Maker in '09 | SolveClimate.com
China is about to present a formidable low cost challenge to leading companies in the global wind turbine industry -- posing a significant threat to their long term competitiveness, growt...
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http://www.solveclimate.com/blog/20080128/heads-china-be-1-wind-turbine-maker-09
Economist's View: You Economists Don't Get It, Do You?
Really good fictitious conversation.
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http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/you_economists_.html
BBC NEWS | Africa | China in Africa: Friend or foe?
China's gifts to modern-day Africa will soon include a gleaming new conference centre at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa - a symbol of Beijing's commitment to African...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7086777.stm
China Makes, The World Takes
Chinese workers making $1,000 a year have been helping American designers, marketers, engineers, and retailers making $1,000 a week (and up) earn even more.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200707/shenzhen
Giants meet to counter US power - Times Online
Foreign ministers from the three emerging giants met in Delhi yesterday to discuss ways to build a more democratic “multipolar world”.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1386812.ece
The New Invisible Competitors
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http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=358767
Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
distribution of power in the world has fundamentally altered over the two presidential terms of George W. Bush, both because of his policies and, more significant, despite them.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/magazine/27world-t.html?ex=1359176400&en=1af8c9c386cc212d&...
FT: The worst market crisis in 60 years. George Soros
The periodic crises were part of a larger boom-bust process. The current crisis is the culmination of a super-boom that has lasted for more than 60 years.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24f73610-c91e-11dc-9807-000077b07658.html
Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all
This web site looks into global issues that affect everyone and aims to show how most issues are inter-related. The issues discussed range from trade, poverty and globalization, to human ...
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http://www.globalissues.org
Globalization Gets Mixed Grades in U.S. Universities JON E. HILSENRATH / Wall Street Journal 2dec02
[Bhagwati and Stiglitz] have been outspoken advocates of capital controls that would restrict the waves of short-term investment and lending that brought turbulence to developing markets ...
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http://www.mindfully.org/WTO/Globalization-Mixed-Grades2dec02.htm
Challenging the Growth Gurus - New York Times
A recipient of the Nobel in economic science who has long argued that governments must be prepared to intervene in the market, Mr. Solow said the idea that a Washington consensus forces c...
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01EEDE103DF93AA25753C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=...
‘Reforms have made a big impact on poverty...there is no evidence that they lack a human face’
What I basically do in my book is take the contentions, their fears, phobias and analyse them using economics, sociology, reasoning and saying is there any truth in it? Because I, basical...
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http://www.financialexpress.com/old/fe_full_story.php?content_id=75593
Bhagwati Discusses Anxiety, Globalization, and Jeffrey Sachs | Columbia Spectator
His 2004 book, In Defense of Globalization, has been re-released, complete with a new afterword detailing the evolution of the arguments originally presented for and against economic glob...
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http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/27634
Why Your Job Isn't Moving to Bangalore - New York Times
Americans' increasing dependence on an ever-widening array of technology will create a flood of high-paying jobs requiring hands-on technicians, not disembodied voices from the other side...
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE1D81E3AF936A25751C0A9629C8B63
Culture Does Not Exist - Intercultures Magazine - October 2006 Issue
Culture is a concept that we made up which helps us understand a complex world, but it is not something tangible like a table or a human being.
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http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/cfsi-icse/cil-cai/magazine/1006/magazine-en.asp?txt=1-3&lv=1
Dani Rodrik's weblog: Deconstructing economists' take on free trade
instead of sticking to what they are good at--analyzing trade-offs-- [in the case of free-trade] economists typically engage in amateur normative political theorizing about what is good f...
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http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2007/09/deconstructing-.html
FES Globalization
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http://www.fes-globalization.org/index.htm
"What the World Eats": a week's food for families around the globe
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio travelled around the world and documented, in writing and photos, the diets of 24 families in different locations. For some reason the first one on the li...
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952
Amazon.com: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Books: Thomas L. Friedman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and best-selling author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree gives a bold, timely, and surprising picture of the state of globalization in t...
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312425074/ref=nosim/?tag=nonijuice07
AlterNet: WorkPlace: Clinton Economists: A Storm Is Coming
Rob Rubin has second thoughts about globalization.
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http://www.alternet.org/workplace/38981