Read it! - “Fighting Poverty for Dummies”
Posted Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
No, this isn’t a joke, even if it is a creative spin-off of the psuedo popular publishing “…for Dummies” series. Tom Pratt of Servant Partners is writing a 6 part series on practical models for combating poverty, with a biographical sketch of a “Jedi poverty fighters” as he calls them, and an analysis of their impact.
Definately worth the read. In a blog world that majors on criticism & ad hominem attacks, this is a great solution oriented & practical series on poverty. Plus, with words like Cronyocracy it makes for fun reading. The first two parts of the series are linked below.
Read “Fighting Poverty for Dummies I - Ownership”
September 12th, 2006 at 8:33 am
On that note, interesting interview in US News with a counterpoint to that “World Is Flat” elitist viewpoint:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060910/18qa.htm
I wish I had time to read the book since this guy weighs in on what Friedman continually conveniently forgets: poor people are getting poorer and there are A LOT more of them than there are of us rich people.