BY DAVID M. HART THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND THE CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE Over the past two or three decades, knowledge-intensive industries, such as semiconductor chip design and biotechnology-based drug discovery, have undergone a global restructuring. Globalization now extends beyond markets for goods, unskilled labor, and conventional finance into markets for technology, [...]
BY JOHANNA BOCKMAN In 1975, Soviet economist Leonid Kantorovich and American economist Tjalling Koopmans jointly won the Nobel Prize in Economics “for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources.”1 How could an economist of socialism and an economist of capitalism share this prestigious prize? Michael Bernstein, historian of the United States and Provost [...]
BY LISA R. PAWLOSKI, JEAN B. MOORE, NIGEL WATERS AND XINIA FERNANDEZ ROJAS INTRODUCTION Obesity is increasingly becoming an epidemic in industrialized nations, particularly in the U.S., where one out of every three adults is obese. However, the U.S. is not alone with this emerging public health crisis. In Europe, rates of obesity among adults [...]
BY DEBRA LATTANZI SHUTIKA I began working with immigrant communities in 1995, focusing primary on new destinations. New destinations are those communities that are experiencing significant immigration, but have had little or no prior history of being locations of migration and settlement. I began my work in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, the “Mushroom Capital of the [...]
BY MARK GOODALE It is unsettling how an experience can rapidly shift from the incongruous to the profoundly moving, from a moment of surprise to the realization that one’s frame of reference, which has been put in place only with great difficulty, is no longer quite so adequate. So there I was, halfway through a [...]
BY TONY YANG The completion of the Human Genome Project marked the dawn of a bold new era — the era of the genome in biology and medicine. There has been growing biomedical research on relating population-based genomic analyses to diseases. This is a transformation from investigating a small group of individuals to analyzing the [...]
BY DORTHE POSSING A report, “Being a Muslim woman in Denmark,” published in March 2009 and commissioned by the former Danish Minister for Gender Equality, Karen Jespersen, concluded that the circulation of “Islamist” discourses on the Internet and Arabic satellite-TV put young Danish Muslim women’s notions of equality and citizenship at risk. The logic was [...]
BY DAVID W. HAINES As Senator Edward Kennedy began hearings on the bill that would become the Refugee Act of 1980, he commented for the record that “I believe our national policy of welcome to the homeless has served our country and our traditions well. But we are here this morning to explore how we [...]
BY AGNIESZKA PACZYNSKA Over the last three years food and fuel price increases followed by the global financial crisis have placed tremendous strains on fragile and post-conflict states, raising concerns about their ability to maintain political and social stability. At the same time, what these multiple crises have revealed is that even countries in remote [...]
BY LISA ECKENWILER Thanks in part to over a century of progress in public health and medicine, many people are enjoying longer lives. These changing demographics are generating a greater need for long-term care (LTC). In the US, while there has been considerable debate concerning the nature and extent of future LTC needs given declining [...]