December 2011
The Death of the Fringe Suburb - NYTimes.com
We have to stop throwing good money after bad. It is time to instead build what the market wants: mixed-income, walkable cities and suburbs that will support the knowledge economy, promote environmental sustainability and create jobs.
October 2011
Linda Leith
Some level of denial and panic may be inevitable at this juncture. More encouraging was the black humour that dominated the day, as in comments about the funny kind of economy we have nowadays, when money so rarely changes hands.
August 2011
the networked practice par Christopher Roach, Jarrad Morgan dans Business & Economics
contacter l'auteur pour savoir s'il y a une version électroniqueThis book is the product of a research project conducted for Paul Nakazawa's course "A New Framework for Practice" at Harvard's Graduate School of Design during the Fall 2010 semester. It is a proposal for a networked model of professional design practice in the context of a globalized economy and increasingly international scope of design practices.
TRANSIT-CITY / URBAN & MOBILE THINK TANK: CONTAINERS : THE STORY
bouquin de Marc Levinson, intitulé "The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger "
China approves Zhoushan Archipelago New Area - People's Daily Online
"It is the first time for the country to set up a new district themed with the oceanic economy at the state level," said Fan Hengshan, director of the National Development and Reform Commission's regional economy division.
July 2011
Resilient Home - Miiu.org
Why? Here's a simple answer. A resilient home protects you against breakdowns in the global supply chain/economy.
State Of The Internet 2011
January 2011
Japan Blocks the Young, Stifling the Economy - NYTimes.com
The result is that young Japanese are fleeing the program in droves: half of workers below the age of 35 now fail to make their legally mandated payments, even though that means they must face the future with no pension at all. “In France, the young people take to the streets,” Mr. Takahashi said. “In Japan, they just don’t pay.”
Japan Blocks the Young, Stifling the Economy - NYTimes.com
Last year, 45 percent of those ages 15 to 24 in the work force held irregular jobs, up from 17.2 percent in 1988 and as much as twice the rate among workers in older age groups, who cling tenaciously to the old ways.
The Hidden Cost of Free: Problems with the Personal Data Economy | Blog | design mind
But, of course, many of these services are not free at all. Users pay for them with their personal data, whether they know it or not. And at some point in time, the bill will come due. But, like Jeff’s truffles debacle, what remains unknown is the price.
Credit Suisse - The Inflation Experience
December 2010
The Adventures of Unemployed Man book
October 2010
Now What Argentina? | ¿Y Ahora Que?
Undesired by Walter Astrada on MediaStorm
September 2010
Walk Score
July 2010
Why Women Mean Business in Japan - Building Gender Balanced Business
Women are being underused in the Japanese economy, which can ill-afford to waste precious human talent, especially as the country reels from the impact of the global recession on its export market.
June 2010
“for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy
GaWC Research Bulletin 343
This Chapter redresses this balance by focusing on sex as one of the drivers of the global economy, arguing that world cities are not merely major markets for sexual consumption, pornography, and prostitution but are the hubs of a global network of sexual commerce around which images, bodies and desires circulate voraciously.
May 2010
All Those Numbers: Logistics, Territory and Walmart: Places: Design Observer
intéressé à savoir comment ils travaillent tous ensemble, les processus de décision. Je pense que le système étant relativement peu complexe (répétition des schémas de fonctionnement sur une grande échelle), le pouvoir s'applique relativement bien.If Walmart were a country, it would be the world's 26th largest economy, just behind Austria. Walmart is also the largest private employer in the United States, with a workforce of over 1.4 million, second only to the federal government.
March 2010
China's economy loses some steam: Sydney Morning Herald
January 2010
The Prepaid Economy Blog: Traditional moneylending - informal, flexible, trust based and changing fast
In summary, it seems that traditional ways and means which offer speed, flexibility and trust are definitely in danger from their rivals, the microfinance organizations but not that of being pushed out. Instead we find they too are taking on the practices of high volume micro loans to scale and compete with these newcomers.


