Leontief Prize Winners have Much to Share with the Philippines 299.0
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 [...]
15 Books – My Favorites from Top of Mind
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 [...]
The Favorite Books of Premier Wen Jiabao of China 256.0
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 [...]
Waiting for the 2010 Nobel Prize Winners 246.0
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 [...]
Amartya Sen Says Development Follows Expanding Freedoms 237.0
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 [...]
Looking Forward with Pres Aquino on Philippine Development 229.0
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 [...]
Social Entrepreneurs are Unreasonable Revolutionists by Definition 227.0
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 [...]
Time for Smelling the Flowers 129.0
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 [...]
