Lisbon Two things came together that might be worth sharing. One was the conclusions argued by Paul Collier in a book called The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About It? and the other was a piece in the Times by Jason DeParle making a related case …
Author: wade
Book Report: Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds
Lisbon Part of my holiday reading has included Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy edited by Lowell Turner and Daniel B. Cornfield and published this year (2007) by ILR/Cornell University Press. The book was already worth my price of admission for introducing me to Sellers essay that included …
One Percent Solutions
Lisbon Theda Skopal is a professor at Harvard, who along with Robert Putnam (“Bowling Alone”), has deeply studied from various angles voluntary associations and what they say about American civic engagement. In one of her books she uses an interesting numerical benchmark to reckon with the issues of scale for voluntary associations operating on …