online archive
9:00AM
FEB 21 2008
Globalisation is good for you
From Red Pepper, Nigel Harris on why globalisation is good for you (and Robin Blackburn responds on how the corporations that run the world can be made to pay for a new system of global welfare). How business can save the world: A provocative study suggests that enlightened management philosophies can spread from the office, and change societies. Does time heal all wounds? Here is new evidence on how major events – good and bad – impact people’s long-run life satisfaction. From PopMatters, an article on America’s most policed art form: Subway graffiti, NYC’s visual criminal; and Grant Wood's "American Gothic" is an elegant representation of the American nightmare: the horrors and monsters that constantly lurk behind the face of normality. A review of Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang (and more). The Bush family's slaveholding past: Was their dynasty built on slavery? Good ideas can have drawbacks: When information is freely shared, good ideas can stunt innovation by distracting others from pursuing even better ideas. More and more and more on How Fiction Works. From The Chronicle, Mearsheimer and Walt have been criticized for their narrowly empirical approach, but political science over all is vulnerable to that same critique; and a study finds conservatives just aren't into academe.
