John Robb: 147 Banks & Corporations as Global Financial Cancer, Gray Markets Fairs, Urban Foraging

JOURNAL: Global Financial Cancer EXTRACT:  A new paper, The Network of Global Corporate Control by Vitali et. al. from ETH in Zurich.  This paper finds, through extensive network analysis, that a small group of tightly intertwined financial institutions control the bow of the global financial system.  It is in effect, the world’s first super-organism.  147 …

Review: Reflections on Higher Education

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg 5.0 out of 5 stars Relevant Today–Perhaps Still Not Appreciated Today, August 10, 2011 There is nothing in this book that I could disagree with, which instantly marks it as iconoclastic rather than traditional or elitist. This long-serving president spent close to three decades managing two universities, the longest The George Washington …

Review (Guest): The Long Twentieth Century – Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Giovanni Arrighi Product Description Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award for Distinguished Scholarship: a comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium. The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long …

Cofer Black: Hackers Evil, Pay Me… + Hackers RECAP

Cofer Black Says Threat Posed by Hackers Same as Pre-9/11 Terrorism Public Intelligence Net, 4 August 2011 not to be confused with Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog Ex-CIA official sounds alarm about hackers’ next targets (CNN): The former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending “code war” in …

Search: public administration in 21 century

UPDATE: Abstract modified by Tom Atlee New Abstract posted. 4 Comments Received Harrison Owen: Public Administration in the 21st Century In the Dark of Night: Public Administration in the 21st Century Harrison Owen: Public Administration in the 21st Century II In the Dark of the Night: Public Administration in the 21st Century II Preliminary reception:  …