Posts Tagged ‘economy’

Knowledge Economy and Proliferation

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

This article is focused on extending the knowledge economy to Low Income Countries.

As for the reference to proliferation- it will become clear along the next few pages, followed by a list of bibliographical references, should you be interested in reading more.

This article was originally planned as a more detailed (and practical) document, but, due to the lack of time, I decided to just share the core conclusions and the introduction.

Change2010_02: Greening the economy and CSR

Friday, September 17th, 2010

In this third article: we are are all consumers- individuals, groups, and, yes, corporations- and the “C’” in the title stands for “consumers”: so Consumers’ Social Responsibility (C’SR).

Over the years, the legal framework protecting consumers evolved, potentially giving to any consumer the same rights- but, of course, I, as an individual, cannot (usually) afford to pay lobbyists and other “consensus shapers”; and the “greening” of the economy is almost becoming yet another marketing opportunity.

I will not repeat what I already presented in Consumer 3.0, on how we gradually shifted from a passive consumer, receiving what was on the menu (1.0), to one choosing from a limited set of options (2.0), to influencing what is actually available in the kitchen.

Taxing the digital economy:blueprint for a virtual nation?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

This short article (1000 words) tries to see some potential side-effects of the digital economy

Certainly, I am neither the first nor the last.

But it is a little bit disheartening to see how the discussions proceed as if reality had been frozen when the discussions began.

Probably SecondLife was the first case where a real-world entity had to sustain a virtual world currency to avoid a crisis of confidence.

And who should regulate these neo-financial virtual entities?

A short article.

As usual, with more questions than answers.

A thank you note

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Well, this post is unusual- as it is more a celebration and public “thank you” note that really something informative.

My thank you note to Prof. M. Hodges and Prof. N. Dattani, who I met respectively in 1994 and 1995 at LSE, attending their Summer School classes.