8 March 2011: 100th International Womens Day: The Drucker Institute has responded to the turmoil at Grameenon our blog. We'd love it if you could get the word out to your facebook or twitter network. Please let me know
if you have any questions. Thanks so much, Alec
The rich countries of the world are probably going to go into balance of payments deficits with the poor ones.
Most of our international financial mechanisms are prepared for the opposite. Are multinational companies going to be an efficient
means of exporting capital around the world? There is a fine old muddle about this arising out of a lack of discrimination
between the effects of a) different countries' balances of payments, and b) the mobilisation of savings. The consequences
will be important for the future of banking business over the next two to four decades. It may even be that on this unexpected
hinge that the fate of the whole international economic system will swing.
The Next 40 Years 1972-2012, The Economist/
Norman Macrae 1971
1 journal guest edited
by adam smith scholars posted out last weekend to 3000 leaders of yunus choice' would you like some copies?
2 as of
now: yunus is seeking most relevant job of youth's most exciting economist
- furthermore
my family wishes to invest in people concerned with solving my dads number 1 puzzle - are we designing
stockmarkets to serve best or worst of these 2 worlds?
A) entrepreneurial best (continuous
social improvement) an industry sector can do over time for human race
B) connecting
local families/communities savings with sustaining next generation
back in 1972 dad's survey in
The Economist on next 40 years forecast meltdown of global finacial system unless we fix this problem ; the only nationwide
knowledge on this challenge is in bangladesh; from today on, it seems to me only clusters of ceos can give a resourceful enough lead on this
.Ideas for Special issues welcomed RSVP chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - focal issues being explored -
following the success of Yunus & Smith issue - who else represents microeconomics
and collaboration entrepreneurial mindsets : Yunus & Drucker ? & ... ?
Special issue on zero carbon and
zero-nuclear issue - this being a concern of the most wealthy yunus fans in london and Japan? and ... ?
Youth exciting
2010s celebration issue to coincide with greatest stage of youth celebrations ; Olympics & ...?
Issue hubbing and
googling through Africa's most innovative and sustainable cultures of the net generation
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Feb 2011 Dhaka: Optimism may need to be delayed for a few weeks.
When The Economist's Unacknowledged
Giant, Norman Macrae, died in June 2010
it looked as if Norman's 1984 story of the net generation's ability to change economics was going to be celebrated all over Bangladesh in this people's extraordinary
40th year of freedom and microentrepreneurship. For those of us including Mary Robinson and myself having breakfast in
BRAC cafe on 8 Feb the news was a bit more dismal. Of my dad's 2 greatest heroes of the net generation: Sir Fazle was seriously ill and Noble Yunus has got caught up in an odd legal system where he has to attend the first day of any case brought against him at
any locality in the country however strange the case. Look at 3 cases so far: is it wrong to increase scale by selling the poor person's rural yogurt for a profit in
the city? Actually I find it the only edible desert and have formally complained to Danone in Paris that they were selling
it too cheap in the city compared with everything else in the supermarket I use. Did a villager get an erroneous phone bill?
Well on that basis I should be calling the CEO of verizon to dock every 6 months, and incidentally Grameen phone is mainly
managed by Norwegians. A few years ago when experimenting as to whether to enter politics, did yunus say something slightly
impolite about some other politicians? Gee by that yardstick there would be nobody left in US congress. And yet even the world
service of the BBC pumps out headlines that fail every principle that 5 generations of my family's work in media holds
dear. Anyhow we were there to launch Friends of Grameen and Journal of Social Business, and with a loan from my dad's estate
3000 leaders will soon be getting their own copy of the new Journal on The Joy of Economics that anyone who has journeyed
a few days with Dr Yunus knows to be vaut le voyage.
16 Nov 2010: Peers, friends and family of Norman Macrae packed the boardroom of The Economist in London
Saint James. They came to celebrate his life and his invitation, complemented by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, to make the 2010s the most exciting decade for youth.
We welcome your action maps and networking collaborations
for doing these programs now:
1 Relaunching Normans Consider Genre -nations its best for the world's next decdes
to make epicentral to sustainbility world trade - Consider Bangldesh was launched 16 November - some Considers that
my be coming soon include : Kenya, Scotland and France ...
2 We have started research on how to put youth in charge
of voting for and corresponding round 20 most exciting goals for 2020 - once we can start to see the goals
elders will be invited to help sort out media and investment channels - for example inspired by the likes of DanoneCommunities and SingforHope and The-Hub.net we expect the popularity of the 20th C tv spot to be dramatically replaced by future capitals with huge youth festivals where top 20 goals are repersented by market stalls at which open
solutions are co-published, exchanged and celebrated (goals will emerge as Gpages of this web)
3 The Journal of
Job Creating Economics (aka Journal of Social Business) was announced. Last month family members travelled to Dhaka to sign
a memorandum with dr yunus guranetting a social bsuiess loan for covering smpling of the first isseu to 3000 leders of
his choice. This will be done in ery 2011 ahed of his testimony on joyful economics to US congreess. Copies of jouranl
will also be mde to youth & other networks who wish to connect round job creation (or bending poverty) and can arrange
their own distribution
4 Chapters of the book on Norman Macrae's how 7 billion people can rule the world
with multi-win economcis and good news media are being called for (soon chapters will emerge as Bpages of this web) -see hios
1984 classic to whet viral appetites http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
4a wiki - the mystery of economics - its history, its future
5 If you were at The Economist, or even if you weren't,
post us a link if you are collaborating in 2010s as the most exciting decade and wish to share your social business model
openly or have an action that is worth everyone's time connecting chris macrae, family member, washington dc 301 661 1655
skype isabellawm : the family foundations association
yours aye chris macrae http://www.isabellawm.com/ family foundations washington dc skype isabellawm 1-301 881 1655
Opening Quote From Norman Macrae's First Book : 1962 Sunshades in October:
Everyone gains by knowing of the favourite theme of Keynes:
"Increasingly the world is ruled only by economics. The danger arises when practical men, believing themselves
exempt from intellectual influence, are in fact slaves of historic rules which changing circumstances have
rendered defunct."
Keynes: increasingly only economics
rules the world
Norman Macrae, The Economist, 25 December 1976: the third quarter of 20th century has seen macroeconomists destroy all the hi-trust
community assumptions of Adam Smith's free market paradigm. Let's celebrate a new capitalism designed by microeconomists before the net generation of the next half century makes global market system wholly interconnected in what exponentials
rise or crash
1984.Start 25 years of storytelling openly questioning the future history of nations- will net generation celebrate micro? Boldly go
global with maps connecting "end poverty" united goal : sustainable exponential investment in every community!
1984. Year 1 of Microcredit Entrepreneurial Revolution- Social
Business Modelling comes to banking
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round trust, first and always
End poverty by 2015.This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United
Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The United Nations Millennium Campaign supports and inspires people from around the world to take action in support of the Millennium Development Goals. Learn More
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73 years after Gandhi's last roundtable at the quakers in London, archives are found on how Gandhi spent quarter of a century
tutoring lawyers of British Raj that you can't change empire/superpower systems unless the people demand three-in-one
chnages to education, media and professions' hippocratic oaths
.Media & Mediation War between
goodwill and badwill networks is presented as white paper to 500 Gandhians and Global Reconciliation Facilitators in
Delhi- chief guested by mininster of broadcasting and infotech
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2006.TheGreenChildren Pop Group for Responsibility starts first million dollar fundraising for social business of helathcare
007.Subprime's end of wall street starts being spotted by curious minds including 3rd graders - as Fox reality tv shows demonstrate global
bankers are not smarter than 5th ,4th, 3rd, 2md, 1st graders...
007.Social Business Responsibility returns as highest value multiplier fashions can sustain in Fast Moving Consumer Goods-eg fortified kids drinks/deserts
2008.Collaboration Flows gravitationally towards hi-trust leaders like Yunus Social Actions & Social Business Mapping
2008.Future Capitalism Partnerships in Industry Sector Responsibility. First gathering in 65 years of Mirpur and Saint James economists.
2009 .Obama- Yes We Can empower 5 million green jobs throughout community
USA; Yunus 00's atlas of collaboration forums
2009.Obama - Bend The Curve: vote for the purpose of the USA nation
brand = to end poverty worldwide
NM micro library 1949 1950-1989 (2000+ eds for The Economist) 4 co-ed Future Histories; 1990-xx 300+ columns for Sunday Times, Fortune (about
25 Inconoclast articles), other work includes biographies & dialogue pamphlets & celebrities' good news speeches
Yes We Can
MicroGuide to 5 collaborations
to end poverty and sustain humanity
We hope you enjoy our MicroGuide to 5 Collaboration Games that DrMuhammad
Yunus, his alumni including the extraordinary mother of President Barrack Obama, and Bangladeshi networkers
have been helping people communally practise for a third of a century.
Designing partnerships to innovate the most vital human services that integration of global and local free markets
can sustain
5 What is Trillion Dollar Industry Sector Sustainability?Joyfully mediating markets to be free: - engage transparency of leadership
in severe contests between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.
system maps for saving the world from wall street and other global meltdowns to 2024
Macraes have exponentially forecast since 1984 that as a system Globalization can only spin one of 2 ends:
Big Brother Orwellian one where big power causes all
sorts of crashes, and its always innocent communities that get in harms way first
sustainable one in which we resolve
community up win-win-wins, integrate local to global transparently, end systemic poverty, and network the 21st century
to be the best of times for all peoples
3CP 10.3. Obama
convenes first annual 60 country presidents summit of entrepreneurship citing Dr Yunus as the kind of entrepreneur every country cn learn from
8CP10.4Uniqlo GrameenUNIQLO-first asian corporate partner
of Grameen Bank Group : Fast Retailing Company Ltdthat owns Japan 's casual-clothing chainUniqlo."On the retail front, we will use theGrameen Bank Group's borrowernetwork of eight millionpeopleto help those living in povertyto develop job skills and provide them with opportunities to sell clothes door-to-door,"saidFast Retailing."In the
first year, we plan to generate work for 250 people and to increase this figure to1,500 within three years.""Grameen ladieswill
becometheir own business ownersby selling the clothing products in visits to neighbours' houses,"
4CP10.5 extension of Uni Kyushu to includeFukuoka city mayor as social business hub-Mayor of Fukuoka City Hiroshi Yoshida, Nobel Laureate Professor
Muhammad Yunus, Sususu Ishihara,Chairman, Kyushu Railway Company, and Setuo Arikawa, President of Kyushu University after
signing the Joint Declaration for the launch of the Social Business Hub in Asia in Fukuoka City, Japan on July 16
10CP10.10 Twelve students
from theShAREstudent network of asian
universities visited theYunus Centreto follow up from their earlier social
business research in January 2010.
Responded to sunday washington post article That Sinking Feeling reviewing latest books on the how the unnecessary exuberance of macroeconomists chains the world to slump
I love this article because when The Economist was founded
in 1843 its purpose was to question leaders before they made big decisions. Economics as mediated for nearly 150 years in
The Economist was the systemic subject of what we don't know in enough micro detail to risk claiming certainty about big
decisions. My father Norman Macrae wrote over 2000 leaders for The Economist demonstrating that systemic exploration
through microeconomics focusing on future's compound exponential view of opportunities and threats. He had learnt people-friendly
economics from an Indian correpondence course whilst waiting as a teenager to navigate RAF planes out of Bangladesh in world
war 2. I see no coincidence in the fact that Bangladeshi economists and entrepreneurs http://yunus10000.com now offer the simplest collaborative maps to go green, to design banks that invest in people's productivity, and as millennium
goal solutions entrepreneurs http://bankabillion.org to community sustainability investment rising out of every locality.
By accident my family's archives also
include 25 years of Gandhi tutoring British Raj lawyers on what transformation from superpowering over to superempowerment
takes, as well as re-reviews of how the network age requires all nations to unite in ending poverty seconded by Einstein and
thirded by Von Neumann. It would be timely if 2009's macroeconomists included these sources in their action learning compass.
In fact Broookings economists and Georgetown social lawyers got so close to doing this in 2000 with publication on Unseen
Wealth but I was told by the chairlady of this report that the incoming texas administration in 2001 tore it up.
1/3/2009 11:13:11 AM Here's a technical PS for media watchers that I didnt feel
WP was quite ready for
Free Market of End Poverty
End Poverty is the same micro-rising system map as go green, as rebuild community
jobs and banks inside the community, connect entrepreneurs sans digital frontieres so that we end hi-cost marketing channels
and get back to free market ones at least for replicating urgent world service franchises. IF UK's BBC and India's
DD could partner in an end poverty apprentice show (instead of trump's real estate) we could get back to networking celebrations
of 30000 replicable end poverty projects as deemed economically critical for 25 years now http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html Globalisation integrates a media and and economic set of exponential multipliers (up or down) the like of which
no generation has ever played with (and quite frankly macroeconomists are as much out of their gravitational depth as newton
would be with einstein's theory of relatvity). So getting back to responsible world service among the 2 largest social
businesses in broadcasting is a hobby horse of my family. End poverty's olympics ought be the most relevant
games of this generation and for social business broadcasters to deny that world service is terrifyingly irresponsible,
and a desecration of free market. http://macrae.tv
