Michael Porter, management consultant extraordinaire, has now brought his theory of competitive advantage to the inner city. Bold new ideas — or an old elixir in a new bottle?
Merrill Goozner
Merrill Goozner is the senior correspondent for The Fiscal Times and a Prospect contributing editor. His blog can be found at http://www.gooznews.com/
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Free Market Shock
The California energy crisis isn’t over: it’s only in remission, thanks to a massive statewide commitment to conservation, a mild summer, and the judicious retreat by energy conglomerates from their extortionist pricing tactics. But the state’s electricity consumers have been left with permanently higher utility bills, and the state’s taxpayers have been slapped with a […]
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Patenting Life
T he backlash against gene patenting is heating up, and not a moment too soon. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has already granted more than 1,000 patents on human genes or their fragments, with over 20,000 pending. The patent office plans to issue new guidelines by the end of the year: Researchers will now […]
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The Price Isn’t Right
Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Drug expenditures in the United States have doubled since 1993 and are expected to double again by 2004, according to a study by the Health Insurance Association of America. Elderly people now spend more on medicine than on doctor bills. Many health plans have […]
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Forty Acres and a Sheepskin
Redistributing income has always been difficult politics, but recent books propose a host of wealth-building ideas that may have some purchase even in today’s free market political environment.
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Needed: Economic Security
Over the next few weeks, America will be consumed by debate about how life in this beacon of freedom may have to change to confront the terrorist threat. Liberals will have to think creatively about how to protect civil liberties in an era when it has become apparent that there are cells of people within […]
