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I’ve more or less stopped paying attention to political news from Zimbabwe. As an increasing number of “talks” seem to end in reaffirmation of still President Mugabe’s Reign of Terror, […]

An economic system that forces people to sell their labor in order to survive is not sustainable. Here’s why.

In the media’s continuing coverage of how the economy is ruining all the best laid plans of higher education, the New York Times asks, how many public research institutes does […]

A Doctor’s suggestions for Healthcare Reform

Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations. Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Pathological narcissism is a reaction to prolonged abuse and trauma in early childhood or early adolescence. The source of the abuse or trauma is immaterial: the perpetrators could be dysfunctional or absent parents, teachers, other adults, or peers.

Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]

It has become fashionable to castigate Twitter – the microblogging service – as an expression of rampant narcissism. Yet, narcissists are verbose and they do not take kindly to limitations imposed on them by third parties.

New corporate and philanthropic structures are making smart giving easier.

Europe has wisdom, sense, spirits and a good virtue. Yet, it appears that she disorderly managed valuable values. It is the time now to reinvent these and to work together on widening and deepening, due to believes in our prosperity and welfare.

The problem of mental structures.

Technology has the capacity to change power structures, says Pogue.

Gessen discusses the triptych structure of the book, and addresses some criticisms.

Jarvis says he doesn’t want to change the structure of government.

Government can create economic structure, policies, and an institutional framework.

Beyond integrating social business into the structure of economic theory, Yunus says, the logical next step would be to create a stock market for social business.

Tribe talks about the structure of the Constitution and how it relates in a broader sense to the rest of the world.

Is technology shifting the geopolitical balance?

Are the post-War structures sufficiently inclusive of new powers?

Kurt Andersen discusses the struggle of writing. He says all writing is a moment-to-moment struggle to find the right words within the right structure.

What are the structures going to be for making decisions internationally?

As a key player in this diminishing manufacturing base, change is something our industry has been dealing with for a long time.