Showing posts with label specialization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label specialization. Show all posts
Friday, January 18, 2013

Information Age: Individual Job Outsourcing

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Outsourcing has been largely thought as mainly company based commercial operations. However in the real world, given today’s deepening of t...
Friday, March 09, 2012

When College Education Isn’t Sufficient

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Work place education matters more than a college degree, so argues Professor Alex Tabarrok at the Chronicle Review (hat tip Prof Mark Perry...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Do Filipinos Need a New Attitude on Entrepreneurship?

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I received a promotional email for an entrepreneurship seminar which comes with a column from Brian Quebengco entitled “Championing Philippi...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Markets in Everything: China’s Village Specializes in Breeding Snakes

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Markets emerge when people discover economic value in specific goods or services. In China, cuisine and medicinal demand for snakes has le...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Deepening of Information Age: More Proof of Structural Changes in Job Markets

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With the deepening of the information age, jobs will be characterized by increasing specialization, as said in many occasions in this post, ...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Commodities And The Good Life

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In a book review, the ever brilliant Matt Ridley narrates how commodities has contributed to economic progress and our good life. An excer...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Matt Ridley: When Ideas Have Sex

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Great stuff from Matt Ridley, watch it....
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

US Unemployment: It’s Partly About Skills-Jobs Mismatch

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It isn’t true that unemployment in the US is all about the lack of opportunities. Instead a big part of this, aside from regulatory uncert...