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 [...]