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Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Fall of Autocracy: who’s next?

Can sub-Saharan Africa survive with its long-standing tradition of autocracy and corruption?  The sub-Saharan Africa is also gifted with nature’s resources and some countries like Nigeria and Sudan are strategically important to the west, which complicates the realm of foreign policy.
Click on the link below to read more on this issue.
Courtesy: Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

ICASIT at George Mason University: a rewarding and stimulating project

Labor of love. My colleague at the grad school and I researched and updated GMU's ICASIT website last semester -- it was a stimulating and rewarding project. Most importantly, I had the luxury of learning a great deal about technological issues and topics such as net-neutrality and cloud computing. I am deeply thankful to Dr. Ruth for teaching us about globalization and technology. And for challenging us.

http://policy-icasit.gmu.edu/reference/technology_topics.html

Code of Ethics For the Economists: why not?

Economists as a rule are driven by the imperative not just to understand the world, but to improve it. It is a wonderful irony, in fact, that a profession that portrays human nature as largely self-interested is populated for the most part by other-regarding actors who want to serve the public good. But the profession has made an extraordinary mistake in failing to appreciate that well-meaning economists face daunting ethical challenges in their work.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/01/economics_1

Courtesy: The Economist