Why Not Paul Farmer at US-AID

New Orleans After endless delays and speculation the Administration announced that Dr. Rajiv Shah, currently an Department of Agriculture official and formerly an executive with the Gates Foundation, would become the head of the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID) last week.  From all reports he sounds like a competent administrator and a [...]

Springfield College and the 9/12ers

Springfield It’s wild and wooly out there on the trail these days.  I gave the annual Social Science lecture about my book, Citizen Wealth, and its themes at Springfield College last night to 200+ students, faculty, and members of the community in Marsh Hall on the campus.  All of this capped a marathon of [...]

Buycotting

New Orleans Any “protest” that has too many names is bound to be questionable, and that seems the case with some of the efforts to direct consumer consumption along political paths.  Among the assortment I saw recently in a piece by Anand Giridharadas in the Times: “boycotting,” ethical consumerism, moral economics, latte activism, critical [...]

Squatting Along the Canals

Bangkok Picking up a copy of the Bangkok Post on the plane as we came from Tokyo to Bangkok, it was a good omen to see an article on the opinion page by one of friends, Jeff Wong, who has been working as an advisor with the Four Slums Network we will be visiting on [...]

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