Video: Alvin Toffler on the New Economy

The Philippines cannot keep on using 18th century thinking in the dynamic, competitive, real-time, 24/7 markets of the 21st century. First wave agrarian economics looks at economics as a closed system – if you have the land – i can’t have it. In the knowledge economy – what I know, you too, can know – and we both or more of us can leverage that same knowledge of technology, markets, structures – information – to create sustainable and viable enterprises of the 21st century.

In the News: RP Among Most Restrictive in Foreign Investments (Manila Standard, Jul 8, 2010)

A July 8, 2010 article filed by Roderick dela Cruz in the Manila Standard shows that the Philippines is among the “world’s most restrictive countries in allowing foreign capital into the economy”. You can go through each item in the Constitution and the FINL and read it with a critical mind with the intention of identifying protectionism and how it affects our daily lives.