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Norwegian Ethics Information Committee Seeks Input on Methods to Improve...
This from Caroline D Ditlev-Simonsen, Professor BI Norwegian Business School:Can a law requiring openness about supply chains improve human rights performance? If so, what should such a law contain?...
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《中国共产党党员教育管理工作条例》"Regulations on the Education and Management of Party...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer; Pottery Figures, Northern Wei Dynasty 386-534 AD unearthed Xi'an 1953>; Beijing National Museum)On 21 May 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has...
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十三届全国人大常委会贯彻落实《中共中央关于建立国务院向全国人大常委会报告国有资产管理情况制度的意见》五年规划（2018－2022) [The...
(Pix: "Break up ‘unnatural and abnormal’ monopolies to sustain high growth, US-China business group head urges Beijing" SCMP 4 April 2019)While the American ruling classes (at least in the form of...
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OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence and Some Brief Reflections
The OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence were adopted on 22 May 2019 by OECD member countries upon approval of the OECD Council Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence. The OECD AI Principles...
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How Much is Your Body Shape Data Worth? AI and the Business of Data...
In a prior post (OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence and Some Brief Reflections) I offered some brief reflections on the continuing move toward the management of Artificial Intelligence (AI) now...
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Remarks: "he Fundamental Contradiction of Cuban Socialism in the “New Era”:...
I was delighted to have been asked to deliver remarks as part of the panel organized by Silvia Pedraza (University of Michigan) for a panel on Cuba in Comparative Analysis organized by the Association...
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Event Announcement--Cuba's Economic Model: Continuity Versus Change--CUNY...
(Pix Credit HERE)I have been focusing on Cuba's economic model in recent work. My book, Cuba’s Caribbean Marxism: Essays on Ideology, Government, Society, and Economy in the Post Fidel Castro Era...
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From Markets as Governance to Governance Through Markets--Considering...
By now it is well known that President Donal Trump has announced an intention to impose a series of increasing tariffs on Mexican goods if Mexico does not demonstrate to his satisfaction immediate...
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Joel Slawotsky: On "China's Long March"
Joel Slawotsky, of the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel, and the Law and Business Schools of the College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel has guest blogged for...
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CPE Working Group on Empire: Part I--A Critical Reading of China's State...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)Every great state has several paths among which it can choose, each consist with its governing ideology and culture. One might imagine, for example, that over the last...
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On the Front Lines of the U.S. Pivot Toward the Caribbean: The U.S. Announces...
(Pix credit: Trump administration bans cruises to Cuba in clampdown on U.S. travel)I had earlier suggested that over the course of the last year, and perhaps led by a team operating through the office...
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CPE Working Group on Empire: Part 2--A Critical Reading of China's State...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)This post is the second and last of a two part series in which the CPE WGE examines the question of paths to empire performed through the choices being made by the U.S....
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UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights Newsletter No. 2-2019
The UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky has just distributed his Newsletter No. 2-2019. Some interesting materials and thoughts. Noteworthy is his call for...
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CPE Working Group on Empire--Part 3; The U.S. Trade Representative Response...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)This post is the third of a series of three posts in which the CPE WGE examine the question of paths to empire performed through the choices being made by the U.S. and...
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Ruminations 86: An Elegy on the 75th Anniversay of the Allied Invasion of...
How does one mark the passing of an age? To mark is to acknowledge; it affirms a difference that might be incomprehensible but for the way in which the signs that mark the collective self reflection...
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CPE Working Group on Empire: Anticipating Empire and Reorganizing...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019 (Fringes of Hong Kong Harbor))This post continues the Coalition for Peace and Ethics Working Group on Empire examination of the question of paths to empire performed...
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Structural Coupling Among Leadership-Center Based Networked Trading Groups in...
(Source OMFIF interactive databank)This post continues the Coalition for Peace and Ethics Working Group on Empire examination of the question of paths to empire performed through the choices being made...
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CPE Working Group on Empire--Part 4; The Sino-Russian Statement...
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)This post is the third of a series of four (4) posts in which the CPE WGE examine the question of paths to empire performed through the choices being made by the U.S. and...
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From the CPE Working Group on Empire--A Thoughtful Exposition of the Chinese...
This post continues the Coalition for Peace and Ethics Working Group on Empire examination of the question of paths to empire performed through the choices being made by stakeholders as they adjust...
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From the CPE Working Group on Empire--Part 1; Flora Sapio, An Engagement With...
This post continues the Coalition for Peace and Ethics Working Group on Empire examination of the question of paths to empire performed through the choices being made by stakeholders as they adjust...
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