Since there’s nothing original to say about yesterday’s match, I figured why not just go on the record with someone else’s words and maybe see if a larger point can be made. Heh. So, an article in the Berliner Morgenpost portrays a case of local immigrants having their flag-waving rights challenged by an activist non-immigrant [...]
Archive for June, 2010
I can’t believe it, I’m actually posting about the footie.
Posted in Personal, tagged football on 28 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Revisiting Sen’s “Development as Freedom”
Posted in Policy, tagged Collier, development, economics, justice, Sen on 9 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m quite the fan of Amartya Sen’s writing, which I hope has been able to inform at least some of what I’m able to contribute — both in a personal and professional capacity. At any rate, I returned to Development as Freedom recently, and am quite pleased with the result. Thus, here is the review [...]
Dispensing with jargon
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, communication, context, Haiti, information sharing on 9 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got a piece up for work on the nature of information sharing challenges, not dissimilar from some of the themes I’ve discussed here in the past. So, in the name of shameless self-promotion, here’s an outtake: The language of better communication has come to take on an almost dogmatic character. Particularly within official circles [...]