25 Mar Sense of humor in development?
Sometimes it's important to remember to have a great sense of humor even in the most dire of topic. William Easterly asks, What if NCAA Basketball Tournaments Were Coached by Development Economists?...
24 Mar Twitter & (A)H1N1
I logged into Twitter four days ago to try to catch up with what is happening in Haiti around the election. Instead, i got distracted by the AH1N1 trend. The Health Minister of Venezuela stated that there have been 179 confirmed cases, with another 200 suspected...
21 Mar On Community
While writing my Master's thesis, i was lured by that delightful word: Community. It's like a party in the brain. It beckons alluringly from the recesses, teasing with all the delightful nuances that only such a delicious word can. My chairs (bless them), smiled knowingly and...
18 Mar And then…part 3
It would be a shame to shake our heads and assume that there is nothing left to learn from the early philosophers of Marxian theory. It is rather odd that they are rarely mentioned in books dealing with social movement theory – whether they are...
18 Mar But who cares….part 2
I've been thinking long and hard about the exclusionary nature of social movements. A friend of mine recently worked with a group that helped to create a Free Farmer’s Market in San Francisco. I was so proud of him and everything he had accomplished,...