The World Beyond The Weekend Economist

The World Beyond The Weekend Economist is a part of the greater Weekend Economist, which is an interactive space aimed at being both a source of information and a place for discussion on developing stories related to Economics, Business, Finance, Technology and Geo-politics. On this site we will highlight interesting articles worth reading by providing a short introduction to the story, followed by a direct link to the article in question. Please feel free to post your comments and/or send us your suggestions for interesting articles worth commenting on and linking to by emailing us at weekendeconomist@gmail.com. Also of interest might be our other two blogs, the flagship Weekend Economist "Quaerere Verum" and WE Technology, Strategy & Business. We hope you enjoy our site(s), Benjamin Valk & Jeroen van Bommel.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

#1 Introduction to The World Beyond The Weekend Economist

Welcome to The World Beyond The Weekend Economist!

The World Beyond The Weekend Economist is a part of the greater Weekend Economist, which is an interactive space aimed at being both a source of information and a place for discussion on developing stories related to Economics, Business, Technology, Finance and Geo-politics. The Weekend Economist is aimed at global citizens who want to expand their scope and understanding of global affairs, without a necessary background in these disciplines.

The World Beyond The Weekend Economist highlights interesting articles worth reading by providing a short introduction to the story, followed by a direct link to the article in question.

The Weekend Economist draws its research from a range of sources, including the Financial Times, Forbes.com, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financieel Dagblad (Dutch) and BBC News. Various academic journals and publications are also addressed so as to ensure the quality of the references.

The Editors are Dutch born Jeroen van Bommel, BA/MA, and internationally raised Benjamin Valk, BA/BSc/MScBA.

Jeroen is based in the Netherlands and specializes in Political Economy, Science & Technology and Finance. Jeroen is also currently secretary to the Roosevelt Institute of the Netherlands and the European liaison for policy management on sustainable energy.

Benjamin is currently based in Japan and specializes in international political and business affairs. At the moment he is conducting research at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University.

Readers are encouraged to post their comments and/or send us their suggestions for interesting articles worth commenting on and linking to by emailing us at weekendeconomist@gmail.com.

We hope you enjoy our site!

Pleasant reading (and contributing!),

Benjamin Valk & Jeroen van Bommel

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