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A Clear Agenda for Reform in 2010

Gordon Brown | Posted 12.23.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, World Economy, International Institutions, Copenhagen 2009, Globalization, Banking Crisis, Climate Change, Imf, Un, Copenhagen, World News
Gordon Brown

As the balance of economic power changes over the next two decades, new and stronger power-brokers may be less willing to embrace change. We must avoid this race to the bottom. Here is how.

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Climate Policy and Sustainability Management

Steven Cohen | Posted 12.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Environmental Policy, Copenhagen 2009, Technology Development, Economic Development, Kyoto Protocol, Renewable Energy, Globalization, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Management, Biosphere, Green News
Steven Cohen

The idea that the nations of the world would cede sovereignty over their economies to permit a global greenhouse gas cap-and-trade policy was misguided fantasy that is hopefully now laid to rest. So how do we move forward?

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They're All Against Jobs

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Globalization, Council on Foreign Relations, Exporting Jobs, Job Creation, Byron Dorgan, Trade War, Barack Obama, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

Everyone is crying for jobs, but no one seems to understand why there aren't any. And the reason for those opposing jobs is money.

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The Rarity of Obscurity

Mark Drapeau | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Competition, Internet, Globalization, Technology, Business News
Mark Drapeau

Are you the best in the world at what you do? Ten years ago, it was very difficult to answer this question. One didn't really have a good sense of who the best shoe salesmen. Now, things are different.

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Pray to the Gods of Capital, Or Build a New Economy

Zack Exley | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Reich, Globalization, Global Economy, Liberal Economists, Barack Obama Global Economy, Business News
Zack Exley

We need to start imagining and preparing for a global, coordinated economic transformation on the scale of a world war -- not only to restore jobs, but to restore means of making a sustainable living to everyone on Earth.

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Buying Gifts In A Globalized World: The Value Of Distance

Marta Mondelli | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Italy, Distance, Rizzoli, Local, Christmas Gifts, Globalization, New York, Tiffany, Made in Italy, Economy, Salento, Living News
Marta Mondelli

It's increasingly difficult to find gifts in a global world where Tiffany's opened stores throughout Italy and, on the other hand, local NYC and online shopping centers worldwide provide you with everything Italian.

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The Loudest Duck

Laura Liswood | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Globalization, Leadership, Multinational Corporations, Career, Business, Diversity, Management, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Laura Liswood

Diverse companies can be much better and more creative, much more profitable and able to succeed globally, only if they are aware and conscious of all we bring in preconceived notions of who others are.

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"Did You Know?" Tracks Progress Of Information Technology (VIDEO)

Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology

Read More: Scott McLeod, Shift Happens Did You Know, Globalization, Information Technology, Did You Know, Karl Fisch, Did You Know Video, Technology News

Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod's "Shift Happens (Did You Know?)" series tracks the progression of globalization and information technology in a way that...

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Revisiting No Logo, Ten Years Later

Naomi Klein | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: WTO Seattle Protests, Globalization, No Logo, World Trade Organization, WTO Seattle, Politics News
Naomi Klein

As the new edition of my book No Logo comes out, it feels like a 'movement moment' once again. A new wave of exciting climate justice activism is underway in the lead up to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen.

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7 Great Books By Economists

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Adam Smith, Economics, Milton Friedman, Amartya Sen, Money, Books, Economics Books, Making Globalization Work, Slidepoll, Globalization, Stiglitz, Obama, Capitalism, Books by Economists, The Next Stage, The Wealth of Nations, Economic Policy, Keynes, Galbraith, Economists, Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity, Books News

There's a major panel discussion going on today in Washington, D.C. called "The Next Stage," in which economists are coming together to discuss the pr...

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Hickory, N.C.: How One Town Has Been Ravaged By Globalization

Peter Whoriskey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Economy, Foreign-Trade, Globalization, Trade Adjustment Assistance, North Carolina, Fiscal Policy, Business News

HICKORY, N.C. -- The expansion of global trade may enrich the United States, as economists say, but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside ...

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Media Literacy 101: Losing Our Ability to Listen to the World (in English)

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Blogosphere, Arab Media, Bloggers, Icann, Knight Foundation, English, Domain Names, Global Voices, Chinese, America First, Globalization, Official Language, Technology News
Susan Moeller

The decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin alphabets isn't just a huge deal for most of Asia, the Middle East and wide swaths of the rest of the world. It's a huge deal for Americans.

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Perfect Desertion

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vat-Tax, Free Trade, Globalization, Trade Deficit, Trade War, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

The politics of the President and the Congress, influenced by the politics of the financial community, brews into the perfect desertion.

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Shrinking Dollar Sets Off Alarms Overseas, But Helps US

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Uk, Recovery, Rate Change, Economy, Currency, Globalization, Pound, Recession, Euro, Economic Recovery, Yen, Exchange Rate, Globalisation, Dollar, Japan, China, Home News

The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar is aiding the American economic recovery but setting off alarm bells overseas, with corporate executives, poli...

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Reclaiming "We"

Terrance Heath | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Working Class Whites, Birthers, Teabaggers, Poverty, The South, Southern Whites, Income Inequality, Uninsured-Rate, Economy, Progressives, Globalization, Jobs, Progressive Movement, Race, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Uninsured, Southern States, Health Care Reform, Southerners, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Terrance Heath

When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.

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Back to the Roots: Entrepreneurship and Global Competition

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Korea, European Union, Globalization, China, Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Cash for Clunkers, India, Green Energy, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

The very rich and the very poor exist under capitalism and communism. We must look to the middle class, and its size and growth, to see the secret of capitalism.

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Out of Afghan, Into Trade War

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Vat-Tax, Globalization, Trade Deficit, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Trade War, Hu Jintao, China, World News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

Washington obscures the Trade War by calling it globalization. Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for countries cheaper to produce.

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Can Obama Redefine the "Real" in Realpolitik? The Nobel Committee Is Betting That He Can

Mark Levine | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: War on Terror, Occupied Territories, Middle East, Pakistan, Israel, Globalization, Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, World News
Mark Levine

It is up to Obama to use the Prize as an opening to pursue truly transformational policies on the world stage regardless of the potential political cost to him.

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How The Middle Class Got Squeezed: Charles Hugh Smith

DailyFinance | Charles Hugh Smith | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Elizabeth Warren, Middle Class Wages, Charles Hugh Smith, Middle Class, Globalization, Financial Innovation, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

The current recession has stoked deep-seated fears about a declining middle class. A great collective anxiety about such a decline has been floating a...

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On the Politics of Giving and Receiving -- Obama and the Peace Prize

MJR Montoya | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel Prize, Philosophy, Politics, Globalization, Barack Obama, Obama Nobel, World Peace, Iraq, Afghanistan, World News
MJR Montoya

During the Nobel ceremonies, President Obama should graciously re-gift the prize, and he should instead recast it as recognition of those who have suffered through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Climate Lobby Investigation Goes Global — and Digital

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: International Journalism, Digital Media, Twitter, Corporate Globalization, Climate Lobby, Lobbyists, Climate Change, Environment, Globalization, New Media, Investigative Journalism, Media, Corporate Greed, International Reporting, Facebook, Investigative Reporting, Green News
Tracy L. Barnett

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.

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Rio Wins! Good News for the Global South

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Global Economy, Chicago Olympic Bid, Southern Hemisphere, Madrid Olympics, Brazil, Globalization, Tokyo Olympics, Emerging Markets, 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics, Rio De Janeiro Brazil, World News
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

Countries like Brazil are now in a position to compete successfully in the athletic events that comprise the Games, and also to provide the venue for the competition.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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Remembering 1989, Diversity in Post-Communist Europe

Barry D. Wood | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, 1989, Missile Defense, Eastern Europe, Igor Shuvalov, Globalization, Vaclav Klaus, Cold War, World News
Barry D. Wood

Today, nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, freedom and diversity are the realities in post-communist Europe.

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One Troop

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade, Globalization, Value-Added-Tax, Trade Deficit, American Troops, Vat Tax, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

For now, we can solve the problems of our fiscal and trade deficits by eliminating the corporate income tax and replacing it with a 3% value added tax. This actually cuts taxes and raises more revenue.

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