52 Posts found for source_year: 2017

How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place

Author: James Somers | Source: The Atlantic (March 21, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, IT | Technology, Journalism, Life & Society

A healthy society balances the power of respected governments in the public sector with both responsible businesses in the private sector and robust communities in what I call the plural sector — the clubs, religions, community hospitals, foundations, NGOs, and cooperatives with which so many of us engage. The plural sector, although the least recognized of the three, is large and diverse. Many of us … [ Read more ]

Author: Henry Mintzberg | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) (March2017) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

Author Tom Nichols argues that people are angry at journalists for giving them what they want: pared-down stories tailored to them.

Authors: Brian Bethune, Tom Nichols | Source: Maclean’s (March 20, 2017) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, News | Media | Publishing, Politics & Public Policy

We can identify four “turnings” that each last about 20 years — the length of a generation. Think of these as recurring seasons, starting with spring and ending with winter. In every turning, a new generation is born and each older generation ages into its next phase of life.

Author: Neil Howe | Source: The Washington Post (February 24, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, History, Politics & Public Policy, Sociology | Anthropology

Some have viewed conspiracy theories as a particular affectation of the American right […] Modern researchers, however, challenge the view that conspiracies are an exclusively rightwing feature, seeing such theories as a kind of magical thinking that allows people from all walks of life and political persuasions to cope with complex emotions, often brought on by an inexplicable event.

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The view that people believe in conspiracies … [ Read more ]

Author: Paul Ratner | Source: Big Think (March 19, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

Perspective from the right on Trump’s political challenge for the left

Author: David Frum | Source: The Atlantic (February 6, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

A strong sense of conviction can both encourage and discourage people from speaking out.

Authors: Carol S. Dweck, Martin J. Smith | Source: Stanford University (January 9, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts

The world order we know is already over, and Russia is moving fast to grab the advantage. Can Trump figure out the new war in time to win it?

Author: Molly K. McKew | Source: Politico (January 1, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Politics & Public Policy

The arguments being pushed by the Trump administration regarding tariffs and related restrictive trade policies are off the mark because they overlook two crucial issues, according to Wharton dean Geoffrey Garrett: “Rapid technological change coupled with economic stagnation have caused more of the pain felt in Middle America than free trade.” In this opinion piece, Garrett also notes that while free trade lowers the cost … [ Read more ]

Author: Geoffrey Garrett | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton (February 1, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, International, Politics & Public Policy

What is a trade deficit?
A trade deficit happens when a country’s imports of goods and services exceed its exports of goods and services. In other words, when a country buys more from the rest of the world than it sells, the country incurs a trade deficit. […] The size of the trade deficit is primarily determined by four macroeconomic forces:

1. The difference between U.S. household

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Authors: Euijin Jung, Gary Clyde Hufbauer | Source: PBS NewsHour (February 2, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts

Last week, six top State Department officials were suddenly discharged by the White House—an Undersecretary, an acting Undersecretary, and four Assistant Secretaries—without notice and without even a nominee selected to replace them. Tom Countryman, who served the nation for 35 years and at the time as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, was in Amman booked to fly to an international meeting … [ Read more ]

Authors: Ryan Goodman, Tom Countryman | Source: Just Security (February 3, 2017) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Politics & Public Policy

The bills before Congress get it wrong—what’s needed is incremental reform in a conservative direction.

Author: David Frum | Source: The Atlantic (June 30, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

The cost of health care in the United States is spiraling upward while politicians continue to bicker over how to fix a broken system. Elisabeth Rosenthal has a sweeping view of the problem because she has seen it from all sides. Rosenthal is a Harvard Medical School graduate who practiced emergency medicine before becoming a journalist. She covered health care and other topics for The … [ Read more ]

Author: Elisabeth Rosenthal | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton (June 2, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

The challenge of providing affordable, high-quality health care for all Americans is the subject of furious debate in the nation’s capital. University of Pennsylvania’s Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the medical ethics and health policy department and a health care management professor at Wharton, helped craft the Affordable Care Act during the Obama administration. He puts forward some ideas for improving the system in his book, … [ Read more ]

Author: Ezekiel Emanuel | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton (June 22, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

Your ambitions to improve your life do not need to be confined by your personality.

Author: Christian Jarrett | Source: BBC (February 1, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Risk perception used to be based on an analytical equation: you multiply the probability of an event by the potential damage of its outcome. But Paul Slovic, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, understood the powerful role of emotions in decision-making and altered that equation, noting that many things affect how we perceive risk:

• do you trust the person you are dealing

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Author: Jenny Anderson | Source: Quartz (January 31, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Fear, Psychology | Behavior, Risk

It took a lot to get us here. […] I’d rely on the old sociological distinction between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft. All across the world, we have masses of voters who live in a world of gemeinschaft: where relationships are personal, organic and fused by particular affections. These people define their loyalty to community, faith and nation in personal, in-the-gut sort of ways.

But we have a … [ Read more ]

Author: David Brooks | Source: The New York Times (January 20, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

Conservatives are more likely to support issues like immigration and Obamacare if the message is “morally reframed” to suit their values.

Author: Olga Khazan | Source: The Atlantic (February 1, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Communication, Excerpts, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

We are creating an intelligence that is external to humans and housed in the virtual economy. This is bringing us into a new economic era—a distributive one—where different rules apply.

Author: W. Brian Arthur | Source: McKinsey Quarterly (October2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

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