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...this week's Visions issue, we look at the future of our work and our world. On the face of it, the two topics seem disparate, but I think you will discover our writers' making some provocative connections, from Tom Peters' talking about the global marketplace to Nobel economist Amartya Sen's exploring the link between jobs and political deprivation. And if anyone thinks that China's bid for superpower status does not depend on its famed work ethic, then she should read Yale professor Paul Bracken's essay, "Will China Be Number 1?" (The answer...
...comes from Harvard historian and economist David Landes, who, after much subtle analysis (of the low rate of Argentine savings, for example, or the intense communal focus of the Japanese), returns unexpectedly to a conclusion of such radiant common sense that one wants to put him up for the Nobel Prize. His conclusion: optimism pays...
...Park and his colleagues from the APS--including Harvard's Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi and Steve Chu, a Nobel laureate and a professor at Stanford University, reject Mills' claims...
Gore might also want to check out the Heidelberg Appeal. Signed by 4000 plus scientists whose ranks number 70 Nobel Prize winners, the Appeal makes clear that regulating human output of greenhouse gases is, at least at this junction, not justified...
...mystery comes from Harvard historian and economist David Landes, who, after much subtle analysis (of the low rate of Argentine savings, for example, or the intense communal focus of the Japanese) returns unexpectedly to a conclusion of such radiant common sense one wants to put him in for the Nobel Prize. His conclusion: Optimism pays...