Category Archives: Economics

Economic theory, general or global ideas about economics, musings about the concepts and viewpoints of many sources

Building Digital Canada

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Judi

I wanted to let you know about a recent epiphany that has me finally grokking the digital policy landscape and what needs doing about it. All because I was sick and channel surfing.
 
I happened to catch a broadcast on CPAC of the June 8 Panel at the Telecom conference and I think it gave me [...]

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Bait and Switch

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Judi

Barbara Eirenreich speaks. We listen. It’s strangely familiar…

Pulling back the curtain on the paradigm of employment and jobseeking in white collar America, even in 2005 when this interview took place, reveals some hard truths about how we are preparing our graduates for (futiley) pursuing their Dream of a great career. Although some issues such as [...]

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Artists are a renewable resource.

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Judi

Artists are a renewable resource. They often produce so much out of thin air that it seems like photosynthesis to me. And they seem compelled to produce creative ideas and objects regardless of the outcome, unable to resist some cellular imperative – kind of like salmon heading upriver to spawn and then to [...]

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Do silos need busting?

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Judi

As I sat in a room full of creative thinkers, stimulated beyond belief by feeling connected and understood – hearing about the innovative projects that represented “Silo-Busting Strategies” from different parts of the world – I realized once again that there were assumptions in the room that needed to be challenged. Even here, especially here.
Once [...]

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More opinion on the Creative Class

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Judi

(from a posting I made to the Sirolli Institute Public Forum on April 21, 2007, which generated a little bit of a buzz)
….I apologize in advance for the length of this rant, but here goes..
The coveted Creative Class referred to by Florida, is that ‘class’ of knowledge worker whose earnings are large and whose skills [...]

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