Other Resources
Blogs / Columns We Watch
Africa Can End Poverty
http://africacan.worldbank.org/node
This blog is maintained by Shanta Devarajan, the Chief Economist of the Africa Region at the World Bank
Private Sector Development Blog (Financial Crisis): World Bank
http://psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/financial_crisis/
Sojourners on the Economic Crisis
http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/
Lowy Interpreter
http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/
The Interpreter aims to provide fresh insights into international events and a new way to experience and interact with the Lowy Institute whose mission is about informing and deepening the debate about international policy to a global audience but with an Australian perspective.
Debtwatch: Steve Keen (Aus)
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/
An extensive finance and education portal bringing together a huge financial services directory, articles, news, links and resources. It has a particular focus on the obsession with debt in Australia. Steve Keen takes an oblique look at the realities rather than the spin of the Australian Economy. It is controversial and high impact. Steve is Professor of Economics at the University of Western Sydney. Refer here to understand Keen's motivation for the site http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/04/13/talk-to-the-fabian-forum-the-global-financial-crisis-how-bad-will-it-get/
Econowatch
http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/econowatch/
Provides a weekly scorecard on the mood state of the economy in North America and beyond
Catholic Exchange on the Economic Crisis
http://catholicexchange.com/?s=economic+crisis
Greg Mankiw'Blog: Random observations for students in economics
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/
Mankiw is a professor of economics at Harvard University, where he teaches introductory economics.
Brookings on the Financial Crisis
http://www.brookings.edu/topics/global-financial-crisis.aspx?page=4
Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor
http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini
G20 Voice Bloggers
http://www.whitebandaction.org/en/g20voice/about
Main Street Cash: Community Currency
http://www.mainstreetcash.org/
Local sustainable economies add safety and security to our world. A number of groups and individuals across around the world are working towards smaller sustainable economies. The tools used for local economies can include a local community currency. This blog provides extensive quality information to those looking at local currencies, sustainable economies and even new open source digital currency. Refer particularly to http://www.mainstreetcash.org/articles/
Dani Rodrik's weblog: Unconventional thoughts on economic development and globalization
http://rodrik.typepad.com/
Paul Krugman in New York Times
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
David Brooks in New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/davidbrooks/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Will Hutton in Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/willhutton
Counter Economics: The Site of Investment and Financial Industry Criticism
http://fairerglobalization.blogspot.com/
Economix in New York Times
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/
Follow the Recession
http://www.followtherecession.com/about/
Freakonomics in New York Times
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
Bubblewrapped's Financial Prophets
http://bubblewrapped.org/futures.html
Lists names of those whose warnings were particularly prescient or uncannily accurate about the global financial crisis.
Sources of Monetary History
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/other.html
Economists View: Mark Thoma
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/
GoodCap ENewsletter
http://www.goodcap.net/
Brian D. McLaren - author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative emerging Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists.
http://www.brianmclaren.net/
Transforming Business Blog
http://blog.transformingbusiness.net/
Each of the blog entries below first appeared as a short reflection written by Peter Heslam, the director of Transforming Business. They were published by LICC and broadcast to a large online and radio audience. The thought pattern behind each of these reflections is based on a fourfold objective: inquire - inform - innovate - inspire...enterprise-based solutions to poverty.
Houston Catholic Worker- Economics and Catholic Social Teaching
http://www.cjd.org/paper/latin.html
Revolution in Jesusland (US). A guided tour for secular progressives:
http://revolutioninjesusland.com/
There is an incredibly large alternative social movement exploding among evangelicals in the U.S. right now that stands for nearly all of the same causes and goals that secular progressives do. Those goals include: eliminating poverty, saving the environment, promoting justice and equality along racial, gender and class lines and for immigrants—and even separation of church and state. This blog by Zach Exley is an attempt over time to provide evidence of these 'progressive evangelicals' in the United States, and to explain the inner logic of this culture’s narratives, theologies and passions, and to flesh out the larger context of this movement that is shaking up nearly every American community.
This evangelical “revolution,” as one Christian pollster has labelled it, is unquestionably the fastest growing and most surprising of American social movements today. Whichever way you measure, it probably dwarfs the secular left. From mega churches to tiny country churches, evangelical Christians are rediscovering the “gospel of the God of the oppressed.” Perhaps the most surprising among these are the suburban, white evangelicals who are stepping outside of their comfort zones to “get into relationship” with the poor, the oppressed, the homeless, prisoners—the people of whom Jesus said, Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me….Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Matthew 25.
Kinetics Faith & Justice Network
http://www.kineticnet.org/
Kinetics Faith & Justice Network is a social networking platform designed to form strategic alliances across various disciplines for community empowerment. Members include clergy, scholars, lawyers, social justice advocates, and nonprofit and business professionals. Kinetic Institute (Kinetics) mission is to develop new ideas that work to strengthen social movements within the African-American community; providing them with the tools and skills to pursue justice and better address the needs of those whom they serve.
Random Rogers Big Picture
http://www.randomroger.blogspot.com/
Random Roger writes about anything and everything in the financial world, and most of it he does very well. The blogger has interests and expertise that are broad. It is one of the most visited financial blogs in the U.S.
David Hilfiker
http://www.davidhilfiker.com/page4.htm
David Hilfiker MD was trained as a Family Practitioner and spent seven years in a rural Minnesota clinic as a country doctor and ten years in at Community of Hope Health Services, an inner-city clinic in Washington DC. He and his family lived for five years at Christ House, a 34-bed medical recovery shelter for homeless men that he helped to found. In 1990, he left Christ House to found Josephs House, an eleven-bed home and community for formerly homeless men with AIDS, in Washington, where he and his family lived until 1993. No longer in active medical practice, he is currently the Finance Director for Josephs House and works toward the creation of a just society through his writing and
speaking.
The Big Picture Blog: Macro perspective on Capital Markets, Technology and Digital Media
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/
This blog is authored by Barry Ritholtz and is a leading financial weblog in the US.
More New York Times Opinions to Follow
Thomas Friedman in New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.html
Nicholas D. Kristof in New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/nicholasdkristof/index.html
Roger Cohen in New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/columns/rogercohen/index.html
Bob Herbert in New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/bobherbert/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=Herbert&st=cse
Also refer to the International Herald Tribune Opinions http://www.iht.com/pages/opinion/index.php
Robert Reich Blog
http://robertreich.blogspot.com
Robert Reich was the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor (under President Clinton) and is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book is "Supercapitalism."
Economic Dreams. Economic Nightmares
http://forestpolicy.typepad.com/economics/
This blog is authored by Dave Iverson a social scientist and an economist who loves nature. It comprises "chronicles of international finance and geopolitics, with hints from thither and yon to help us find a way from 'growth and development' to 'sustainability.'"
Ruth Gledhill Blog
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/
Ruth Gledhill is The Times Religion Correspondent. In this blog she offers her views on the issues of the day.
Sudden Debt
http://suddendebt.blogspot.com/
A blogger who spent near their entire career in finance, particularly in money, FX and bond markets; and who headlines all blogs with the following quote: "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) Founder of the House of Rothschild
Global Macroscope
http://www.globalmacroscope.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=44&Itemid=50
The website of Max Fraad Wolff
John Quiggin Blog http://johnquiggin.com/
John Quiggin an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. His blog provides commentary on Australian and world events from a social-democratic perspective.
Counter Economics
http://counterecon.com/
This blog is written and maintained by Shaun Snapp. He decided to start this blog because of what he found to be inaccurate information communicated by media outlets regarding finance and economics.
Tom Dispatch
http://www.tomdispatch.com/
This blog is maintained by Tom Engelhardt. It provides insightful commentary and essays on the condition of America in the world, especially about foreign policy, the "war on terror," and environmental issues.
Fairer Globalisation
http://fairerglobalization.blogspot.com/
Fairer Globalization is reflections on articles and events related to the Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations Program and online magazine www.policyinnovations.org.
In terms of the Global Policy Innovations Program: Over the last decade, the development engine appears to have stalled in some regions. Many of the worlds poorest countries are experiencing falling growth rates, rising unemployment, and environmental degradation. Many in the developing world have come to view free trade and financial liberalization not as pathways to prosperity, but as tools of exploitation. A growing body of innovative scholarship offers promising strategies for sustainable development and a fairer globalization. Yet, these proposals have not been disseminated in a coordinated fashion. In response to this challenge, the Global Policy Innovations program provides a forum for pragmatic alternatives to the current global economic order. Its mission is to highlight the best new thinking on a fairer globalization that is informed by ethics.
New Internationalist Blogs
http://blog.newint.org/
This is New Internationalist's website hosts a number of blogs each with their own unique identity and purpose. They include: the Editor's blog, the Majority World blog, the Photo blog, Cantankerous Frank, and the Japan blog.