Are You a" Truly International" Scholar?

Information Polity - Developing a truly international journal

Will Clayton Nonresident Scholar in International Economics

Technical Abstract: Recent advances in the growth literature have proposed that difficult to quantify concepts such as social capital may play an important role in explaining the degree of persistent income disparity that is observed among countries. Other recently explored possibilities include institutional mechanisms which generate barriers to aggregate production. An important limitation fo...

So you think you are a professional ?

The human ego provides continuous opportunities to explore the richness and variety of human perception. It is capable of excruciating truth and insight as well as delusions of grandeur that obscure truth and reality. The maturity of an individual can be defined in relation to his ability to differentiate between these extremes. The computing practitioner, being human, is no exception. His exis...

Are you sure you have a strategy?

Executive Overview After more than 30 years of hard thinking about strategy, consultants and scholars have provided an abundance of frameworks for analyzing strategic situations. Missing, however, has been any guidance as to what the product of these tools should be—or what actually constitutes a strategy. Strategy has become a catchall term used to mean whatever one wants it to mean. Executive...

Cosmeceuticals: are they truly worth the cost?

Cosmeceuticals are the advances made within the world of dermatological products and the new beckon in skincare. Cosmeceuticals are topical cosmetic– pharmaceutical hybrids intended to enhance the health and beauty of skin. The concept propounded by Dr. Albert Kligman states that “The Cosmeceuticals are topical agents that are distributed across a broad spectrum of materials lying somewhere bet...