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Economicsitis: A Response

By Ian David Moss | Published: March 9th, 2010
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, [...]
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Economists Don’t Care About Poor People

By Ian David Moss | Published: March 5th, 2010
(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 a lively [...]
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Around the horn: earthquake edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: March 1st, 2010
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.” [...]
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eighth blackbird and the Ethics of Pay-to-Play

By Ian David Moss | Published: February 25th, 2010
Chicago-based chamber music ensemble eighth blackbird has earned the admiration of many a composer over the past 14 years for their electrifying performances, outreach to new audiences, and tireless championship of contemporary programming. That is, until the announcement of their new composition competition earlier this month. It seems that in order to enter the competition, composers [...]
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Around the horn: Vancouver edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: February 15th, 2010
Stephen Colbert is ready for the Olympics…are YOU? Did you know the Olympics used to award medals to artists between 1912 and 1948? Germany led with 24 in all. Holy moly data gold mine ahead: PeteSearch has been writing a program to scrape the public Facebook profiles off the web and analyze their connections and fan pages. [...]
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Around the horn: palindrome edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: January 12th, 2010
Happy 01-11-10, folks. First time we’ve seen a palindrome date in that format since October 22, 2001, if I have my math right. Ain’t numbers fun? Here’s this week’s news: Isaac’s done (with directing for a living, that is). In related news, Newsweek notices the burgeoning pro-am movement. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: In recent [...]
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What We’ve Learned So Far

By Ian David Moss | Published: January 2nd, 2010
Image by macwagen, Creative Commons license I’ve been blogging for a little over two years now, and in that time a lot has changed. I’ve gone through a complete graduate business program, worked for a summer at one of the largest private grantmaking organizations in the world, expanded my blog reading list by about 2000% , [...]
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Looking back: Createquity in Quotes

By Ian David Moss | Published: December 31st, 2009
“What should it matter if one feels truly alive while composing while another does so through nuclear physics or conducting market research or cooking? If the goal is to get the arts to be taken seriously in broader policy discussions, it seems to me that the creativity connection is crucial. And not just in the [...]
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Around the horn: goodbye oughties edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: December 28th, 2009
We’re winding down what’s turned out to be a very eventful year at Createquity. Next week will feature some exciting announcements and changes, but in the meantime, this week’s posts will look back: at what we’ve learned, what we’ve said, and what the hell happened! Happy holidays and best wishes for 2010 for all who [...]
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Around the horn: Net Impact edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: November 10th, 2009
This Friday, I’m excited to be moderating and presenting at a panel at the Net Impact North America Conference at Cornell University’s Johnson School. (For those of you who have been following Createquity since the spring, this is the result of the Creative Economy proposal I submitted back in April.) If you happen to be [...]
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