Category: Global Economy

03/12/11

Internet "neutrality" regulation restricts innovation in our energy systems, and our fight against climate change. Here's why. more »

02/28/11

In tandem with the rising economic prowess of China and India, the fears of market spectators and the working public have been emerging, and not unduly, in both the United States and Europe. Indeed, in the US the “outsourcing” of jobs has become a salien… more »

02/23/11

PEOPLE & MACHINES are increasingly connecting, via information technologies. It is happening in ways that almost no one predicted or currently understands. What does it all mean? Maybe I can help a bit. First, let me try to give some insight… more »

11/20/10

ndonesia and Haiti reinforces this grave point. In this report, we call for a greater focus on the need to increase building reinforcement and disaster risk reduction efforts around the world. Download the full report as a PDF here. more »

09/16/10

I am respectfully questioning the economic intelligence of the commercial spaceflight investment strategies being designed and advocated by the U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee. I was reading a report in the New York Times… more »

11/05/09

*Seating is limited and speakers subject to change. Event to be broadcast online. more »

09/28/09

Here below is a recent conversation I had with a more conservative peer of mine. We were debating the rights of corporations in the context of a recent New York Times article, and how we feel about the expansion of those rights. PEER:Limited, sure.… more »

09/12/09

Barack Obama's concentrated, sustained leadership of health reform these past few months is not coincidental. He is not allured to some dazzling dream of liberal utopia -- he is working to sustain U.S. and global economic prosperity. In my lifetime, th… more »