11 Posts found for source_month: Winter

Why is corruption so pervasive around the globe?

Author: Jakob Svensson | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2006) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Law | Legal, Politics & Public Policy

As the influence of traditional religions wanes, Europeans feel a yearning for spiritual forces they do not control.

Author: Roger Scruton | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2003) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, International, Religion

Like systems, individuals also tend to favor either reliability-oriented systems or validity-oriented systems consistently across multiple types of situations. When faced with the trade-off between validity and reliability, some will always sacrifice incremental validity to secure incremental reliability, while others will always sacrifice incremental reliability to secure incremental validity.

Author: Roger Martin | Source: Rotman Magazine (Winter2005) | Subject: Thought Starters

Frances Hesselbein talks about the potential virtues of mandatory public service.

Author: Frances Hesselbein | Source: Leader to Leader (Winter2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

There are five maxims the federal government can follow to regain the public confidence it has lost over the past four decades.

Author: William A. Galston | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

America’s national security structure is designed to confront the challenges of the last century rather than our own.

Author: John A. Nagl | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, Military | War | Peace

Having moved from political prisoner to cognitive scientist to Chilean senator, this uncompromising philosopher of communication is now educating business leaders for the world of social media.

Authors: Fernando Flores, Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business (Winter2009) | Subjects: Excerpts, History, Thought Starters

The influential economic theorist looks ahead to a world of virtually free energy and zero marginal cost production, and to a desperate race against climate change.

Authors: Art Kleiner, Jeremy Rifkin, Juliette Powell | Source: strategy+business (Winter2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Environment | Sustainability, Excerpts, History, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

It’s unappreciated that for much of history, growth in economic frontiers — what we would call development markets — was actually quite low. The era of modern economic growth got started only in 1870, with the simultaneous advent of the iron-hulled screw-propelled oceangoing steamship, the submarine telegraph cable, and the industrial research lab. It was then that the pace of growth kicked up a notch … [ Read more ]

Author: J. Bradford DeLong | Source: strategy+business (Winter2016) | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Excerpts, History

Virtually all civilizations, from the Greek and the ancient Mayan to our own, are united by a determined quest for evidence of harmony in the cosmos.

Author: Anthony Aveni | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2001) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Math & Science, Philosophy

Last May, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright handed German foreign minister Joschka Fischer a most confusing diagram. Beneath an array of apparently random scribbles, it depicted a map of Europe that appeared to have been defaced by an unusually energetic infant who had been allowed to run wild with a box of crayons.

After some effort, the eye could discern a number of sharply dissimilar circles … [ Read more ]

Author: Martin Walker | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2001) | Subjects: Articles & Links, International, Politics & Public Policy