Convergence

July 11, 2007 in Amartya Sen, Censorship, China, Financial Times, Public Health, sustainability

Amartya Sen had observed that a Free Press is the very best weapon against hunger. There has never been, he asserts, a famine in a modern nation that has both a Free Press and multi-party democracy. I had wondered a while back (in this post: The Free Press, Famines, and Disease Outbreaks) [...]

Not your Father’s Thousand Points of Light

March 7, 2007 in Amartya Sen, Books, Future, Globalization, Intellectual Property, NFP/NGO, Pharma, economics

A Process that (very strangely) is under the radar of most right now is the expansion of the Not-for-Profit Sector into fields that were traditionally the exclusive reserve of the for profits. There was an interesting article in The McKinsey Quarterly* a while back that caught my attention with some facts about the Not-for-Profit [...]

The Free Press, Famines, and Disease Outbreaks

December 23, 2006 in Amartya Sen, Books, Epidemiology, First Amendment, Infectious Disease, Terrorism, The Media Landscape, War

There are so many little nuggets in Amartya Sen’s book Development as Freedom that I really don’t know where to start, as there were so many little post-it notes stuck at passages that I thought were either entertaining or made excellent points, or contained interesting perspectives on points I’d thought about before that I stopped [...]