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Central Banks, Errant Markets and Deglobalization
Written by Dragos C. Costache
One of the most interesting and eloquent panels I attended this year at the GES was, surprisingly, one chock full of economists. Usually when you attend a lecture by economists you expect it to be quite occult and verbose, not unlike a philosophy lecture only with more focus on […]
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Transformation Thinkers Conference: Lessons Learned
Written by Chak Sopheap
The Berlin Wall and ThePianist (2002), a biographical war drama film were my primary sources of information about Germany since 2003, derived from my bachelors study in International Relations- war and genocide being my points of reference. This time my trip to the Transformation Thinkers Conference in Berlin, organized by the Bertelsmann […]
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Formalizing Tradition, the Tianguis Example
Written by Kapell
Folklore suggests the Mesoamerican Tianguis (street markets, or as we call them in Mexico, “markets on wheels”) were created many years ago, when the hungry farmers decided to organize in order to bring their products to bigger cities and sell them. These markets grew larger and became part of our […]
