So What You Helped Build A School: Sustainability In An Age of Idealism

gmtonga1987 | January 2, 2009 - 11:59 pm

Tags: economics, politics

As an aspiring politician/businessman with an intellectual interest in economics, i often struggle between the idealism in me and the intellectual obligations i feel i have to economics as an area of study. Often when i engage in a project, i always look at ways of sustaininig it but i find that that side of consideration is hardly the norm among most folks.

The White Zulu: From Morehouse College, From Atanta. From Washington DC TO SOUTH AFRICA

gmtonga1987 | November 30, 2008 - 4:46 pm

Tags: politics

There is a lot we can learn from a friend of mine. His name is Christopher Koehs and i met him at the Congressional Black Caucus the summer of 2007. The man is the epitome of progress and reminded me of the whites who fought along side blacks in the civil rights movement. He went to Morehouse College and now is at Kwazulu Natal doing grassroots.

 

TOTALLY RADICAL: A MARXIST/ INTERNATIONAL CAPITALIST SPEAKS

gmtonga1987 | November 24, 2008 - 4:57 pm

Tags: economics, politics, progressivism

  TOTALLY RADICAL:  A MARXIST/  INTERNATIONAL CAPITALIST SPEAKS

POLITICIANS FAIL HISTORY TEST

Obama Will Take Us Backward By Channeling Keynes: Amity Shlaes by Amity Shlaes

gmtonga1987 | November 19, 2008 - 1:07 pm

Tags: economics, government

Obama Will Take Us Backward By Channeling Keynes: Amity Shlaes

Commentary by Amity Shlaes

The World Going Forward: The Confusion Of Free- Market Believer

gmtonga1987 | November 18, 2008 - 6:50 pm

Tags: economics, Financial Services, globalization

 The World Going Forward:   The Confusion Of   Free- Market Believer

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT? MY WALLET SAYS NO

gmtonga1987 | October 30, 2008 - 5:57 pm

Tags: economics, politics

I have always been and will always be an agent of change. I think it can be changed for the better good it should be changed. However, we also live in the real world where numbers rule; but the hallmark of a true decision is when it defies reality and expected norms.

Globalization and Health Care

gmtonga1987 | August 14, 2008 - 11:16 pm

Tags: economics, health care

 

 The Economist SArticle. Very Interesting. My fascination with Globalization is crazy!!!

 

 

Globalisation and health care

Operating profit

Aug 14th 2008 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition

The Trouble With Milton Friedman: If the Fed Were In Charge Of The Sahara, There would a be a shortage of sand!

gmtonga1987 | August 12, 2008 - 9:13 am

Tags: politics, University Of Chicago academia

One great brain v many small ones

The trouble with Friedman

Aug 7th 2008 | CHICAGO
From The Economist print edition

A doughty free-marketeer sparks controversy from the grave

EVERY big university has a scholar whose legacy lingers in hallways and classrooms, auditoriums and leafy quadrangles. At the University of Chicago no man looms larger than Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate who led the “Chicago school” of economics and who died in 2006. When the university announced plans for a $200m economics institute in May, it seemed fitting that the centre should be named after him.

Factory for unhappy people ( Interesting)

gmtonga1987 | August 12, 2008 - 9:04 am

Tags: business school

http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11880213

 

Aug 7th 2008
From The Economist print edition