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Pass the Books. Hold the Oil.

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

March 10, 2012
To be sure, there is a role for stimulus in a prolonged recession, but “the only sustainable way is to grow our way out by giving more people the knowledge and skills to compete, collaborate and connect in a way that drives our countries forward,” argues Schleicher… “knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.”

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Made in the World

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Jan. 28, 2012
‘Let’s send some software generation overseas.’ This is not the outsourcing we’re doing today… 96 percent of our potential new customers today live outside of America.” That’s the rest of the world. And if companies like Dell want to sell to them… it needs to design and manufacture some parts of its products in their countries… But America can thrive in this world… either imagining products, designing products, marketing products, orchestrating the supply chain for products, manufacturing high-end products and retailing products. If we get our share, we’ll do fine.

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Justice Goes Global

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

June 14, 2011
Sandel’s popularity in Asia reflects the intersection of three trends. One is the growth of online education, where students anywhere now can gain access to the best professors from everywhere. Another is the craving in Asia for a more creative, discussion-based style of teaching in order to produce more creative, innovative students. And the last is the hunger of young people to engage in moral reasoning and debates, rather than having their education confined to the dry technical aspects of economics, business or engineering.

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