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Innovate With Your Hands, Old School

Michael Graber Southern Growth Studio
Jocelyn Atkinson Southern Growth Studio
February 05, 2014
While the industrial revolution encouraged efficiency, it led to the decline of hand-made creations. We stopped tinkering altogether and started simply operating machines, becoming inherently less ingenious.
Over the past century, new product development hinged on access to expensive machines that were generally out of reach for the individual. Thus, only companies with the cutting edge equipment could achieve new production development and innovation.
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The Real Challenges to Growth

Michael Spence Nyus Stern School Of Business
February 04, 2014
Advanced economies’ experience since the 2008 financial crisis has spurred a rapidly evolving discussion of growth, employment, and income inequality. That should come as no surprise: For those who expected a relatively rapid post-crisis recovery, the more things stay the same, the more they change.
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A Trade Policy for the Millenials

Susan Ariel Aaronson George Washington University
Michael Owen Moore George Washington University
January 20, 2014
Leaks are bedeviling trade negotiations.
In October, the European Commission leaked its position papers for the US-EU free trade agreement talks, known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement or T-TIP.

In November, Wikileaks leaked a draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement among 12 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. The same group also leaked a draft outlining country positions on key negotiating chapters in the TPP in early December.
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