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Posted by m beduya on March 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Leontief Prize has been awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University since 2000 for: outstanding contributions to economic theory that address contemporary realities and support just and sustainable societies. The Leontief Prize winners say many things that are relevant to the Philippines. I first noticed that I had written [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Alice Amsden, Amartya Sen, China, Dani Rodrik, Global Development and Environment Institute, herman daly, industrial policy, input-output analysis, John Kenneth Galbraith, Leontief Prize, Nicholas Stern, Richard Nelson, sustainability, SYNTHESiST, Tufts University
Posted by m beduya on October 30, 2010 · 1 Comment
I hope the microblog post 15 Books on Facebook Notes becomes viral. My gifted friend, James Matthew Miraflor, who I hailed in my February 25 (SYNTHESiST anniversary and People Power) post, started the microblog. And I linked with my own favorite 15 Books and tagged fifteen friends with it. James has his heart in the [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Learning and Teaching · Tagged with Alfred Sloan, Amartya Sen, Frank Herbert, George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, james Miraflor, Joseph Schumpeter, Kim Stanley Robinson, Max Weber, Musashi, Peter Senge, Thomas Kuhn, Wang Yang Ming, Yoshida Shoin
Posted by m beduya on October 16, 2010 · 2 Comments
On Fareed Zakaria GPS (CNN), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said his two favorite books are The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. The choices are very astute and worthy of the sixth Premier of China. For one, both authors are long dead but the writings combined reflect traditions that [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Social Innovation · Tagged with adam smith, Amartya Sen, China, Fareed Zakaria, GPS, Mao Tse Tung, Marcus Aurelius, Project Gutenberg, Three Kingdoms, Wen Jiabao
Posted by m beduya on September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Th 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was updated on October 11, 2010: Peter Diamond (MIT), Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University), Christopher Pissarides (LSE) shared the prize for research that improved the understanding of search frictions in markets. Their work allowed a more realistic case than classic perfect competition in [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with Akira Suzuki, Amartya Sen, Christopher Pissarides, competitiveness, Dale Mortensen, Ei-ichi Negishi, Elinor Ostrom, Kenneth Arrow, Konstantin Novoselov, Liu Xiaobo, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Peter Diamond, Richard Heck, Robert Solow
Posted by m beduya on July 30, 2010 · 8 Comments
Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Prize winner for economics, is one of the most eminent development economists today. In his book, Development as Freedom (1999, Anchor), Professor Sen quotes Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics in justifying why he believes freedom is more important than wealth as the true object and subject of development: “wealth is evidently [...]
Posted by m beduya on June 30, 2010 · 3 Comments
As I write this post, I am listening to President Aquino deliver his inaugural speech; indeed an inspiring one as an inaugural speech ought to be. Just institution-building? Yet, from the speech, President Nonoy seems just focused in building, if not re-building, the institutions of a working capitalist democracy – possibly as countervailing powers in [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Financing of Innovation · Tagged with Amartya Sen, development economics, George Bernard Shaw, innovative entrepreneurship, John Kenneth Galbraith, National Innovation Systems, Noynoy Aquino, Philippines, social entrepreneurship
Posted by m beduya on June 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Writing about what Filipino social entrepreneurs – like Reese Fernandez, Mark Ruiz and Jay Bernardo – actually do as innovators left me stumped and sidetracked. Thus, before posting about Mark and Jay, the inevitable a priori question must be asked: what makes a social entrepreneur tick? Stoking the Inner Fire. This question led me to [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Amartya Sen, countervailing powers, George Bernard Shaw, Jay Bernardo, Man and Superman, Mark Ruiz, Philippines, Reese Fernandez, revolutionist, social entrepreneur
Posted by m beduya on October 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
My reading list is growing … On a vacation in Beijing ten years ago, a favorite cousin counseled me to balance my reading with immersion in the real world – her phrase, “to smell the flowers!” The months of November and December will involve intense immersion for me with projects that ask for deep thought [...]
