Category Archives: Economics

Techs & the city

Techcrunch recently featured an interview with New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, as part of their Founder series. It included this glimpse into Gotham’s cultural policy. …the business strategy, if you will, of New York City Government is not to subsidize … Continue reading

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Measuring up: The well-being agenda

This whole ‘well-being agenda’ is a bit of a conundrum. At first glance it looks like a perfectly reasonable proposition, but I confess the more I read the more suspicious I become. Once again we seem to be taking an … Continue reading

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Assorted links

by Jon Too many interesting things in the last couple of weeks, too little time to blog. So here are some assorted links that may be of interest.

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The strategy for NPOs? Grow

By Jon This is a bit more esoteric than other posts you’ll find on BC. Normal service will be resumed when I post next on the value of books, but prompted by Dawn’s post on KPIs a couple of days … Continue reading

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