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...read it like I do the Bible," said President Lyndon Johnson of her 1962 study, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations. A Roman Catholic, she cheered the church's fight against inequity. Her plea for ecological sanity, Only One Earth, helped shape the U.N. environment conference in Stockholm in 1972. Co-author Rene Dubos praised her as an "economist who can talk to people through her human qualities...
...measure of how Europe is changing that Funky Business authors Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, professors at the Stockholm School of Economics, are considered radical prophets of consumerism. Their message is hardly new in the heartland of capitalism, the U.S., but it is a revelation in Sweden, where the state-led economy has long held sway. Nordstrom and Ridderstrale claim that in the new wired world, employees and consumers, not capitalists, hold the real power. The only unique asset companies have, they say, is the brainpower of their employees. The corporation is us, the means of production ours. Demand seldom...
beenz is now a global operation, with offices from New York City to Stockholm to Sydney to Hong Kong. And it's getting to be a significant business: in November the company completed its third round of venture-capital fund raising, bringing total investment in the start-up to almost $40 million; its technology partners include such heavy hitters as Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Web-hosting giant Exodus. There are almost 750 million beenz in circulation--roughly equivalent to the currency float of a small country...
...reason that allows the famed to think themselves champions of the poor because they give speeches before audiences in Stockholm...
AWARDED. To GUNTER GRASS, 71, provocative German writer whose explorations of his country's torturous century established him as one of the most esteemed voices of the postwar era; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The jury predicted that Grass's The Tin Drum (1959) would become "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century...