Whistle Blowing in Medicine, Humour in Economics and Korean Neoliberal Influence in Uganda
As the festive season approaches, we have a particularly eclectic range of articles to share with you, from whistle blowing in medicine, humour in economics, to Korean Neoliberal influence in Uganda and the politicisation of football in Darjeeling!
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In World Review of Political Economy, Volume 15, Issue 3 (Fall 2024) Xian Zhang and Jingyuan Fan analyse and demonstrate that “The Basis for the International Division of Labour and International Trade Is Absolute Rather Than Comparative Advantage: Theory and Empirical Evidence”. Maria Socrates Markaki and George Economakis, develop an empirical investigation of “The Economic Pyramid of Unequal Exchange within the European Union”.
In “Plundering the Skilled Workforce: Depriving Developing Nations of Their Most Valuable Assets”, Hasan Gürak, raises vital questions over the difference which exists between developed and less developed countries in terms of “skilled mental labour” (SML), which is needed to use technologies effectively and to attain economic growth and development while making best use of its companies and institutions.
Joseph Musasizi and Iain Watson, investigate how aid recipient states such as Uganda are using Korean official development assistance (ODA) to legitimate a specific roll-out of neoliberal state regulations in their article “Authenticating Neoliberalism: Korean Official Development Assistance in Uganda and East African Region”.
Finally Zhihong Luo and Xiaoqin Ding present “Chinese Modernization and the Prospects of World Modernization: A Review of the 16th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy”
In the latest issue of Prometheus, Volume 40, Issue 1, Editor Stuart Macdonald considers the complex role of “Whistleblowing in Medicine”. Megan Smith, Kate Goodheart, Claudia Fryer, Tomas Balcytis, Peter Wilmshurst and Patricia Murray present “An analysis of the UK’s commercial stem cell clinics”. As doctors and researchers in the field, they are concerned that the technology’s exploitation by private-sector clinics poses a danger to the public. It is particularly pertinent as it is co-authored by a whistle blower.
Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi and Marie Stadge consider “Why university social responsibility initiatives can backfire and what to do about it”. They explore four mechanisms for this possible ‘dark side’ of University Social Responsibility and develop behaviourally inspired solutions to mitigate this risk.
In “Wit and wisdom: using computational humor to communicate about Economics” Iacob Postavaru, Emilia Bunea, Crina Pungulescu and David Stolin survey participants trapped in an Economics conference. They ask them to compare two short passages from each of three Nobel prize winners in Economics, one straight and the other rendered humorous by artificial intelligence. Does the injection of humour render Economics more interesting and thus more memorable?
The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies is produced by the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The latest publication, Volume 6, Issue 1, opens with an article considering “Disrupting Ableism and Racism in the Classroom”, by Alison Dossick who explores how ability has been used together with racism and other intersectionalities to exclude marginalised populations in educational settings.
Football in India and Darjeeling, like in many parts of the world, was introduced during the colonial period. Binu Sundas’s article “Football and Its Politicisation in Darjeeling” is based on the methods of auto-ethnography and reflexivity and tries to highlight and analyse the relationship between football and politics in Darjeeling after the 1980s.
Jane Rossouw critically analyses “Representations of Gender and Sexual Diversity in Life Orientation Comprehensive Sexuality Education” in South Africa. In “The Good White, the Bad, and the Ugly—Contemporary Limits to Wokeness” M Lombaard argues that there is an emptiness to “wokeness” which remains as social awareness and does not translate to collective responsibility. “Wokeness”, like social justice movements, is an ongoing collective process which cannot focus on or remain with the individual.
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