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Left and Right, but where is the Center?
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S&D Group President Hannes Swoboda said: "Monti as next Italian President could be a good choice. But let first Italians choose between right and left politics.” My comment: Left and right politics? Where are the centrist ones, in Europe in...
2012 Review: US vs EU models (dreams vs quality of life)
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Even in 2012, US and EU systemics point to: US best to pursue your dreams, EU best for quality of life. In 2012, quality of life in the EU27 took a further beating and the European Social Model (with its variations) is under threat, with the "excus...
2013: What the times call for is for governments to ...
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Topic (summary): What the times call for is for governments to get their act together and govern, via better planned and implemented policies. Topic (introduction): In countries such as the UK, one has seen a rise in voters and parties that are an...
From my personal diary; Thinking is hard work
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Two people in real life today impressed by my argumentation skills. A result of many years of experience. thinking and practice online. I always had a "talent' for argumentation. I won prizes in Impromptu Speaking in English as early as high school.
Lobbying is so 20th century
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The analysis of the effect of public policies on the strategy of companies is a key task of public/EU affairs and an often missed (undervalued) dimension of Corporate Strategy. There is a need for closer ties between public/corporate affairs and...
End of what?
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Now I am puzzled! Which will come first? a) end of the world b) end of euro c) end of Monti's government?@nickphilosoph21 on everything under the sun...
A serious fundamental flaw of the EU single market
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Language inter alia prevents the EU27 from being a single market for advertising. And that is a serious fundamental flaw for a single market and an entity like an EU.@nickphilosoph21 on everything under the sun...
The key to the EU and its single market
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The key to the EU single market and the EU in general is making SMEs and people feel at home in "it". Has not happened yet. And I do not mean just trade of goods or freedom of capital movement. The Euro was/is an element of a single market and a si...
Competitiveness: In search of balance?
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Everyone (almost) understands that a consistent deficit in trade undermines an economy and eventually a state. Look at Greece. But also look at the UK, France and the US, some of the world mature yet champions of trade deficits economies in the wor...
Euro Fringe
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Life in the Euro Fringe is not much less weird than life in the Fringe US TV series.@nickphilosoph21 on everything under the sun...
Mittelstand
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Along with the advantages and management/business/policy techniques of complex goods manufacturing .. Is German Mittelstand under-studied by US, European and international business gurus?@nickphilosoph21 on everything under the sun...
Merkelian logics
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Merkel's Euro policies qualify for a saying: It's all German to me (compare with the origin of the original saying). In other words, "Europe" is not "speaking" German, as Volker Kauder of the CDU hoped/argued/boasted at a CDU conference one year ago...
Scylla or Charybdis in modern economics
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National oligarchs or international oligarchs and corporate and other bureaucrats? Scylla or Charybdis? Where/who is "Ulysses"? Oligarchs or free grazers? I remember a Kevin Costner cowboy movie on this type of dilemma! @nickphilosoph21 on everyth...
11 day (fin) virus
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I feel selectively de-faulted tonite. I hear it lasts 11 days. No antibiotics needed, doc said.@nickphilosoph21 on everything under the sun...
Management and HRM: Chains, links and what's wrong with biz/work/econ systemics today!
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Rough day at the dentist and then electric fuse blew when I returned to the flat where staying temp and not feeling at home in. What a day! But the building owners' rep energised her wits and local connections when I called her, so the fuse that was...
Decision making in 2012: Plan vs Strategy
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Do not mistake boring and static thinking for good thinking. Or quips for wisdom. In today's over-complicated systemics+dynamics one has to either beef up the analysis or give it up altogether. Over-analysis is not a symptom of too much analysis bu...
Should all economists live in Greece of 2012?
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My first two university degrees were focused on decision sciences as applied to transport(ation) systems: traffic, public transportation, trains, corporate logistics and of course, at least in my case, airports and airlines. I have not really practic...
The values of wisdom and stamina and the danger of too financial times
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My 12 weeks in the UK, NL, BEL, FRA, ITA were full of hard knocks. Tweeted much re that. So have the 2 weeks (back) in GRE. It has been a hard 7 days because I thought there was something wrong with my health. Turns out I am fine but I keep the...
From my personal diary: My own "systemics" and London rain
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Back from the third trip to the dentist in 10 days. 8 extractions down (3 today), 6-7 more to go. It's raining like London the taxi driver claimed. Not it's not, I thought, but I did not say anything, I still had cotton in my mouth pressed again the...
Dynamics (Europe): Only Greece is Greece!
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In the aftermath of Monday night's Eurogroup decision on Greece (a very complicated package/deal the elements of which and their between the lines not clear to the writer, still, 24++ hrs later, but my MBA does help, to a certain extent, to begin to...
