whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

...ges wiped out by enclosures. They triggered the most dramatic social change in human history: the industrial revolution. With it came the astonishing innovations that led to the motor car, airplanes...

2. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
(Analysis/Analysis)

"This push for a so-called "green revolution" or "gene revolution" is being done once again under the guise of solving hunger in Africa. Chemical-intensive agriculture is, how

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

...m-studded Europe is maintained. This sort of progression isn't limited just to farming. The supply-chain revolution In conversation with Stewart Cohen, one of the founders of the South African ...

4. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

... home; and add to our safety by preventing the "criminals" from coming here too. As with the French Revolution, sometimes the chaos spins out of control and upsets the sensibilities of the n...

5. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...veté of the incumbents. In 2004 Tim O’Reilly declared the coming of Web 2.0, “the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an...

6. What happens when they hate you? The impact of charity.
(Analysis/Analysis)

...chism begin?” Sadly, they may both be available at the same time.  “He who has worked for a revolution is like one who has ploughed the sea,” said Simon Bolivar. The truth of ...

7. The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...warming? Over the past 50 years, throughout the period of the Cold War, free-market economies have developed revolutionary and astonishing technologies.  Not a single futurist ever came close to...

8. Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...her price if I see there are lots of buyers." It is consumerism which has resulted in the technological revolution that created cheap telecommunications.  And it is this rising standard of ...

9. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
(Analysis/Analysis)

...te) and a basic education program designed to teach essential skills and self-study techniques. The X Prize revolutionised commercial space flight by offering a prize to the first team to achieve a ...

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

... purchase cell-phone airtime, Branson is taking on the monolithic incumbent operators using the language of a revolutionary.  His intention is to make money for himself and his investors by under...