OBRA MAESTRA

Michael Sandel
“Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history”
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“Sandel has opened up an important area of debate at a time when some of the unquestioned assumptions underlying economic policy and praxis of the last few decades have been exposed as fraudulent and are being questioned. What happens [...]

© Matthieu Ricard (born 1946) is a Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
Recently the Dalai Lama Center Canada organized a Peace Summit in Vancouver with the Dalai Lama and other Nobel Prize winners and speakers. One evening the rock singer and humanitarian Bob Geldof, whose Live Aid concerts have [...]

Hans Rosling:
Global health expert;
data visionary
© Gapminder Foundation
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now he looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development with his remarkable trend-revealing software.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the [...]

social enterpreneurs
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They put society above self. They use entrepreneurial means to drive social change. These 50 social entrepreneurs are enriching the nation.
Naren Karunakaran

IN THIS STORY:

Who Is A Social Entrepreneur?

What if a million issues found a million crusaders? What if each one of us transformed into a social entrepreneur? What if each one of us [...]

Get Down to Business
Original date of publication (French) June 3d 2009 7:21 | by
JACQUES ATTALI

Contrary to what they want us to
believe, the crisis deepens: in the United
States, all deficits are rising; banks defaulting are worsening, and even if
Wall Street is up, its value is still 40% lower than that of October 2007.
In addition,everyone [...]

By Lee Iacocca
November 2007
with Catherine Whitney.
I Had Enough?
Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening?
Where the hell is our outrage?
We should be screaming bloody murder.
We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing [...]

I still wonder how the leading country on this planet can expect to have debt free citizens…while having a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion?

The problem is not new from: Ross Perot’s in 1992 presidential election… Mr. “r-e-a-d m-y l-i-p-s” and raising taxes…
Bill Cliton in 1993…(where they first lost [...]

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“What we’re doing is all about transforming the very concept of poverty among the poor themselves”
Muhammad Yunus, winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2006 and co-founder of Grammeen bank
“They [social entrepreneurs] are rebelling against the idea that the problems that surround us are so big that ordinary men and women can’t make a difference,”
said [...]