Posted by: vinothifes on: December 26, 2011
I return to Ha-Joon Chang’s debunking 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. In one of his chapters, Chang argues that people in poor countries are generally more entrepreneurial than those in rich countries. Most citizens of rich countries work for a company, doing highly specialized jobs. As a result, they spend their working [...]
Posted by: vinothifes on: December 10, 2011
The average human today lives longer, travels further, burns more carbon and eats more food than in any generation before us. The unsustainable consumption habits of Europe, the USA and Japan have been promoted worldwide and are now being emulated by hundreds of millions in China, India, Brazil and Indonesia. The carbon-fuelled, capital-intensive approach to [...]
