whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sively increase the amount of sea-food we could catch. A motorised trawler can haul significantly more fish than one chap in a skiff with a hand-net. Governments around the world recognised the prob...

2. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
(Analysis/Analysis)

...over this seeming contradiction. Either capitalism doesn't create jobs, or businesses are being selfish and refusing to create them, goes the argument. Pointless jobs can be created with taxpaye...

3. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
(Analysis/Analysis)

...attel, the world's largest toymaker, has recalled more than 20 million of their products, including Fisher Price and Barbie. The cause? Toys with paint containing too high a lead content and poo...

4. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it? Does virtue consist of serving vice? Is the moral purpose of...

5. After Enron: the Corporate Governance of Corporate Social Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...n charitable works. It's hard for shareholders to complain because then they'll simply look selfish. Philip Armstrong, board-member of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) a...

6. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

...as sex slaves. Anything to terrorise the civilian population. Women's vaginas were sewn up with fishing lines, villagers' mouths clamped shut with padlocks. Drug-crazed soldiers would rip ...

7. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d June, the scorching sun burns open my skin Revealing the true nature of my wound June, the fish swims out of the blood-red sea Toward another place to hibernate June, the earth sh...

8. Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

...quo;t even want to know it exists).  And protectionism turns up in unusual places. When US lobster fisherman – after years of overfishing – complained that Chinese farmed lobster were...

9. The end of wild seafood and the myth of "free"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ter, seafood … not free in the sense that you don’t pay for them (water out the tap, fresh fish in the markets) but the product itself turns up, well, for free. In the case of water, it ...

10. Responsibility Reputation Risk - a conference on corporate social investment
(Events/Events)

It has become common cause to present a view of business as selfish and opposed to human interests.  This, of course, is short-sighted, simplistic and wrong-headed.  However, businesses &nda