Last week’s post, provocatively titled Economists Don’t Care About Poor People, attracted two lengthy, substantive critiques. One was from Michael Rushton, with whom I’ve tangled previously on the subject, and the other from Adam Huttler. (Note to self: when your own boss writes an eleventy-thousand-word comment refuting your twelvety-thousand-word blog post, maybe it’s time to,Read More
Archives for March 2010
Around the horn: it’s an honor just to be nominated edition
Americans for the Arts has another blogfest going, this time about private sector arts advocacy. Some big names participating in this one. The National Endowment for the Arts’s latest program has sort of flown under the radar, but Our Town (which is currently in the President’s budget request waiting to be approved by Congress) wouldRead More
Economists Don’t Care About Poor People
(Cf. for the title.) My around the horn post from this week included an item on the ethics of offering unpaid internships and a proposal under consideration across the pond to force arts organizations (and other employers, presumably) to pay interns the minimum wage if the engagement is longer than a month. This sparked aRead More
About the name
Since you asked, Michael, I still can’t figure out if Createquity has four syllables or five. Indeed it has five syllables: cree-ay-TEH-qui-tee. And in case anyone’s wondering, there’s no glottal before “equity,” I just lean right into the “t” before it. Also, not that I really need to remind you if you’re reading this, butRead More
Around the horn: earthquake edition
David Byrne has a new journal entry talking about his experience speaking at the TED Conference last month. If you’d like to hear Byrne speak, he will be kicking off the Connecting New England’s Creative Communities Summit in Providence next week as part of a panel on “Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around.”Read More