A full month? February, 2010

Considerations on PIIGS and post-colonial EU Governance

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

I was actually preparing an article on why stamping out tax evasion without first removing the main reasons why institutional corruption exists is as results-oriented as the charge of the 600.
Then, few articles attracted my attention: a statement from Theodoros Pangalos (vice-premier of Greece), an article/contribution from the Deutsche Bank, a series of commentaries on [...]

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Science and parallels

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

This short article has already been partially diffused in one of my weekly “broadcasts” yesterday evening, so I will apologize if you already heard some of its content before.

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Considerations on political communication

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

I found quite interesting the constant stream of books and articles about how Internet is challenging communication processes- albeit a little bit too long on hype, and too short on substance.
I am no real theorist- cultural anthropology and archaeology were some of my hobbies as a teenager.
But the inspiration for this short article comes from [...]

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Thinking the unthinkable

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.

Following the guidelines that I described in a previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.

PS Yes, this preamble is shared with the previous article, “Drawing maps“.

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Drawing maps

Monday, February 8th, 2010

If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.

Following the guidelines that I described in the previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.

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Knowledge-based economies

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The inspiration for this article came from a twitter-war between some of my online friends, siding either with Nokia or with Apple in their fight about who should license what.

The last round? Apple asking US Courts to block the sale of Nokia products in the USA (as a side-effect of Nokia request that Apple licenses its innovations that have been allegedly used for the iPhone etc).

Inspiration, I said.

The real issue is: are our business development and FDI (foreign direct investment) attraction models, created for an industrial era, sustainable when we shift toward a knowledge economy based on the WTO legal framework?

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