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  • 7 Dec 2021
    Shaomin Li

    Why Are China Studies So Contentious?

    Studying China can be contentious. I have been in China study seminars that were as confrontational as sessions of U.S. Congress. A primary reason for the contentiousness is that people study China from different perspectives. Here are two major perspectives: the China-centric and the other-country-centric perspectives. The China-Centric Perspective This perspective emerged in the late […]

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  • 25 Oct 2021
    Brain inside of a laptop computer being held
    Shawn Bayern

    A Q&A with Shawn Bayern, author of ‘Autonomous Organizations’

    Q: What led you to start thinking about how software or robots might get legal personhood? A: It was two things, really. On one side, I started noticing that significant activities within existing organizations had become entirely automated but still had legal effects. For example, I have a colleague who has no idea how much […]

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  • 25 Nov 2020
    James L. Perry

    (Re)Discovering Our “Better Angels”

    What do the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, free and fair elections, and secure homelands share in common? It is this: achieving these extraordinary ends depends on committed public servants doing their jobs, day in and day out, sometimes in the face of significant challenges. The special disposition of public servants to put others […]

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  • 23 Jun 2020
    Madhusudan Datta

    Reform and the Structure of the Indian Economy

    The Indian economy traversed a rising growth trajectory for three decades since the turn of the 1970s. It has been observed that growth came mostly from the service sector. The question that haunted economists is: can the service sector of an underdeveloped country maintain such momentum when manufacturing fails to get charged up in spite […]

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  • 11 Jun 2020
    Ralph L. Keeney

    Give Yourself a Nudge

    Your decisions collectively empower you to create the life that you desire. If you want to improve your professional skills, enhance a relationship, eat a more healthy diet, contribute more at work, or mentor young people, you need to make decisions. Your decisions turn your plans into reality and improve the quality of your life. […]

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  • 12 Mar 2020
    Francine McKenzie

    GATT: A Despised Do-Gooding Organization

    The World Trade Organization has always had more critics than champions.  These days, the charges that are made against the WTO include that it has overstepped its authority, that it impedes the ability of members to set their own trade policies, and, paradoxically, that it has been unable to deal effectively with China.  The recent […]

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  • 5 Nov 2019

    Strategic Human Resource Management

    The website of GE mentions: “the relentless quest for progress has fueled 130 years of innovation. We believe that our people are our most powerful catalysts for growth and innovation”.  At Google, the HR team, has revolutionized HR the same way Google has revolutionized search engines. HR is seen as a business partner and all […]

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  • 1 Jul 2019
    Ruth Towse

    How digitization impacts the creative economy

    In the ten years since I wrote the first edition of A Textbook of Cultural Economics, the cultural sector – the arts, heritage and cultural industries, jointly known as the creative industries – has been revolutionised by digitization and, as with other revolutions, things have changed in unimagined ways. Nowhere has this been more evident […]

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