whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
(Analysis/Analysis)

... investments would be stolen; they'd be pulling out, not pushing in. And those self-same protestors at anti-globalisation gatherings have their pensions and lifesavings invested in those same com...

2. Everything is coming up Capitalism
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rd, that is, not the ideology. That has re-emerged. Now it is known as "new economics" or "anti-globalisation" or "people's economies". The prevention of Newspeak ...

3. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
(Analysis/Analysis)

... the interests of the shareholders with the interests of the employed managers and executives who run the show. Globalisation makes things even more complicated. "If a South African firm forms ...

4. The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan Sucks
(Analysis/Analysis)

Many years of grizzled travelling will give you a cavalier attitude to roadside cuisine and a thick skin to the casual xenophobia which occasionally greets the weary traveller. Most tourists have tro

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

...and those of the poor been greater. The youngsters lighting fires in Germany at the G8 Summit to protest about globalisation and capitalism have little in common with the striking protestors in Sout...

6. What comes after Capitalism?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ism to allow those who don't know each other to trust and interact. The violence and vociferousness of anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist protestors gathered in the German city of Rostock, in...

7. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
(Analysis/Analysis)

There is something magnificent about the way that modern, market-driven businesses get ever more efficient. How they are able to derive ever more from ever less. Agriculture used to be a matter of p

8. The Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia and Lessons in Globalisation
(Analysis/Analysis)

Wikipedia is one of the most popular Internet phenomena.  It is an online encyclopaedia that, in the words of its founder, Jimmy Wales, "Is designed to provide free access to the sum of all

9. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...up against similar behaviour by their royal house.  Even France’s continuing terror of capitalism and globalisation are simply a way of pretending that they can control their future without...

10. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...own. Branson has claimed the very principles of subversion promoted by arch-Communist Guevara in the pursuit of globalisation and capitalism.  It was Guevara who said, “We must bear in min...

11. The Responsibility Gap
(Analysis/Analysis)

Globalisation and the global flow of capital are frequently blamed for inequality and poverty. "Surely," the argument goes, "you must be getting rich at the expense of all these poor, s

12. Whythawk Podcast Downloads
(Category List)

...t there are also risks. Whythawk presents here a series of informal seminars and discussions on risk, economics, globalisation and the excitement of doing business in emerging markets. The series is u...