links for 2006-05-27
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Abstract of Making Things Public – Atmospheres of Democracy. From Bruno Latour’s website.
links for 2006-05-26
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Great reading list of Anthropological texts that are available on JSTOR
links for 2006-05-24
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Collection of templates for OpenOffice and Latex
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This could work.
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Good Collection of Latex and Bibtex styles, including the social science and humanities
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Another good example.
links for 2006-05-22
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Fritzen, Scott (2003) Donors, local developmemt groups and institutional
Kennedy School conference on “Equality and the New Global Order”
Joe Mandle at Crooked Timber has posted an excellent summary of a recent conference at the Kennedy School on global equality. The summary of presentations and discussions are wide ranging, and the conference participants represent some of the biggest stars in American social science. Issues discussed include the role of international institutions to creating and maintaining altruism, migration and equality, and the normative foundations of international equality. Joe has done a great job of summing up the discussions. He also points to a number of conference papers here.
links for 2006-05-17
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Interesting open access online textbooks
The impact of microfinance
There has been much written in the past month about the impact of microfinance. A new CGAP book paints a very optomistic picture of the MF world. On the other hand, Thomas Dichter has argued that microfinance has done very little to promote economic development, or at least that we have not been able to measure the impacts with any reliability. At it’s heart, this is a debate about ideology, and also about big money. Donors have spent a lot to promote microfinance in recent years, and there are strong vested interests who would like to see it succeed. But it is interesting to see the debate begin to open up. There are few who would argue that microfinance has no role in development – even Dichter sees a postive role for financial services for the poor. On the other hand, it seems that the world is waking up to the fact that financial services are only one part of economic development, and that the legions of poor people starting small business cannot change the world on their own.
links for 2006-05-11
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Interesting editorial on Iran letter to Bush. Sees Iran as the continued vanguard of the nonaligned movement.
