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In This Issue     Feature: The Globalization Issue: Labor vs. Intellectual Property   The Declining Importance of Cheap Labor Commodity and Energy Costs Pro-Business Political Systems, Trade, and Industrial Policies Company vs. Country Top-Down vs. Democratic Economies Reverse Globalization and Merc II: Offshore Companies Onshoring   Quotes of the Week   Upgrades   Whales vs. Ranchers UK Sees the Graphene Vision   Takeout Window   National Economic Destinies: The Household Download Index   Ethermail   In Case You Missed It... Members Making News   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News...   New Members' Welcome How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where's Mark?

 

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SNS Book Selection:

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, by Ray Kurzweil (Viking, 2012).

 

What is apparently new to Ray is decades-old news to SNS members: pattern-matching is the critical skillset in understanding the world around us. Ray brings an interesting anatomical view to this SNS paradigm. - mra.

 

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The Globalization Issue:

        Labor vs. Intellectual Property

 

Apple got caught in several misstatements over the last year, as it tried to defend its supply chain practices - specifically, the use of "Foxconn" (Hon Hai Precision) as a major producer of its products, at a time when Foxconn workers were throwing themselves off the roofs because of poor labor practices in China.