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China’s Qunadary
September 7, 2008
China is growing.
Talk about some non-breaking news. These days, you would be hard-pressed to take in a news broadcast or skim the front page of a newspaper without being reminded that, in almost every quantifiable measure, China is rapidly growing.
What should be breaking news is the way that China is growing. China’s chosen pattern of development is alarming and merits considerable and urgent attention. Instead of learning from the mistakes of the United States, China appears eager to repeat them.
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A Nudge in the Best Direction
August 14, 2008
As my Engage the Spectrum colleague Kenneth Chandler recently explained to me, the prevailing concept of the best-seller, “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” is that given the option, an entity (be it an individual, a company, a government, etc.) should default to the best available choice. The idea being that it is more effective to “nudge” people in the direction of superior choices rather than to prohibit poorer ones.
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A Tyranny of Language?
August 11, 2008
While reading an article in the July issue of Planning, the aptly titled magazine of the American Planning Association, I was confronted with a disturbing truth. The article, “Planning Education 2.0,“ focused on recent graduates in the field of urban planning and discussed what has become an unfortunately increasing reality: an alarming number of college students are graduating and entering (or attempting to enter) the workforce without the ability to write effectively.
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