Got Cheap Milk? calls for cosmovorism --eating as if the planet mattered. I discussed the piece on the Kojo Nnamdi show. Not popular with the Seattle Times, amongst others (and on reflection some of the language in the middle of the piece was unnecessarily inflamatory). But the CattleNetwork liked it.
That's what the Patrick Swayze fans over at FP titled my column on Arvind Subramanian's new book and reasons to be positive about China's looming economic dominance. It was picked up in a Time blog.
This Optimist column notes Mexico has the biggest rich-poor gap in the world, and that weak governance may be behind it --but recent changes suggest there might be hope for shrinking that gap.
The week's second Optimist column --the US should be happy it is coming off the top spot. I spoke about the article on Canada's Q Radio program (08/22).
This FP column suggests that $40 billion a year would raise the incomes of the poorest up to $1.25/day in 2015. Allowing for poor targetting, that's maybe $100bn or 0.25% of rich country GDP. I responded to some of the comments on the piece here.
