Ernesto Sirolli’s work “Ripples” is one of my favorite books on economic development. He learned the hard way that “top down” economic development just doesn’t work. They basically had to “addict” the local populace to sugar, alcohol, and tobacco to get them interested in working in the program! Finally what he learned and applied was [...]
Updated 12/18/2010 Here’s Colbert in one of his famous monologues skewering O’Reilly and making some good points. Unfortunately it is at best half true in so many ways. Thanks, by the way, to the Anwoth blog for pointing this video out. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat [...]
In my recent book review of “Toward A Truly Free Market” I did not get around to mentioning one of the important topics of the book (for lack of review space, not interest!): examples of Christian Distributist though applied to enterprise. The longest running enterprise that could be comparable with “Big Business” but which is worker [...]
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