globalization

Clownvertising, Terrorism, and Candy Cane Briefs

December 17, 2009

I‘ve always been interested in economics, because economics is a great way to model, measure and understand human behavior. In a TED-talk I watched over a bowl of indian curry (I got stuck alone in the office over lunch), Loretta Napoleoni explains the economics of terrorism and how it relates to the economics of the [...]

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Jedi Training Lecture

October 27, 2008

Today will be a day of lecturing on globalization, economics, outsourcing, transaction costs, the upside-down Coase Theorem, and what that has to do with the changing media landscape. Try for example to do a parallell reading of Friedman‘s “The World Is Flat” and Forrester Research‘s “Groundswell” or Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody“, and move straight from [...]

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The Nextopia Stalker, Part 1: The Joy of Next

June 2, 2008

So. A few weeks ago I got an email from the publishers of Micael Dahlén’s upoming book Nextopia, asking me for my comments on the book. Besides being incredibly flattered (Micael is after all Sweden’s first professor in advertising), i’ve also had a bad conscience ever since for not finishing my comments. But I think [...]

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