Time to Rethink a Broken Market Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:15 PM PDT Yves here. Readers are likely to assume that the “broken market” of the headline is US housing related, say the private mortgage securitization market, but the subject is what once was the gold standard of trading markets, …
Business Regulation and Non-State Actors: Whose standards? Whose development?
Business Regulation and Non-State Actors: Whose standards? Whose development? Edited by Darryl Reed, Peter Utting and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed Routledge Studies in Development Economics, January 2012 Hardback: 978-0-415-59311-3 e-Book: 978-0-203-12692-9, 346 pages, Routledge, United Kingdom/United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of …
Opportunity for Collaboration – Transparency in Competition
Social entrepreneurs need to be transparent to cooperate (that’s the social part), but they also need to rely on opacity to compete –we are entrepreneurs, after all. How can we cope with such dual personality? Our friend Peter Deitz started the conversation two years ago with Competition or Collaboration? Now is the time to …