Let me simply list topics of interest to me these days (March 2002):
1. Productivity: what are the drivers of Canadian productivity? What would be the key levers to increase productivity nationwide (currency? taxation? management practices? deregulation?)?
2. Tipping...: as in The Tipping Point, this wonderful book that attempts to describe in a sociological fashion the well-known S-curve of technological adoption (without mentioning it). The disappointment is that the application of the theory to the public policy management of smoking seems overly un-ambitious. What would be more powerful applications of the theory?
3. Boundaries: as in G. Spencer-Brown's deep Laws of Form. Isn't there a deep connection of purpose between the way a cell's membrane and a property right act? Aren't they both a triggering device that signals something is happening in the world when the boundary is crossed?
That's it for now, let's see Radio UserLand in action... Cheers to my first weblog!
7:41:00 PM 
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