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From Davos: Why Manufacturing Can't Solve The Jobs Problem | Business | TIME.com - 0 views

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The Shift from Manufacturing to Service Economy | The Big Picture - 0 views

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How Codecademy got so hot, so fast - Tech News and Analysis - 2 views

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Programming is the new literacy
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  Codecademy now also has a project with the White House, for a summer course.
  
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roland legrand on 24 Jan 12

Codeacademy is a start-up teaching people to code. It has tremendous succes.

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Apple And Agglomeration - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Paul Krugman about Apple and agglomeration, he endorses the article from the nytimes, and refers to his own essay on the economies of agglomeration.

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Macro Man: TMM Asks You: The Future of Employment - 0 views

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Why isn't the iPhone made in America? - Marginal Revolution - 0 views

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Joseph Stiglitz: "A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Arou... - 0 views

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Joseph Stiglitz explains how the Great Depression is caused by the revolution in agriculture. We're facing a similar shift now in the "real" economy.

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Udacity and the future of online universities | Felix Salmon - 0 views

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Macro Man: TMM Asks You: The Future of Employment - 0 views

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5 startups to watch from Y-Combinator's Summer 2011 class - Tech News and Analysis - 0 views

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http://www.nber.org/public_html/confer/2011/MECf11/Baldwin.pdf - 0 views

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Richard Baldwin: a research paper about supply chains in the age of globalization

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Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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A much talked-about article in the New York Times about the fact that the manufacturing of iPhone-like devices no longer takes place in the US.

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Supply chains: Apple and the American economy | The Economist - 0 views

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What Apple teaches us about the American economy, and no, it is not all what you would expect;

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Sam Palsimano's Transformation Of IBM - 0 views

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The former head of IBM managed his organization through the disruptive changes of economy and technology.

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