Week 3: How do Political and Social Institutions Impact National Economic Development?

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Week 3: How do Political and Social Institutions Impact National Economic Development?

“Institutions… Natural resources… Education.. Political system.. Property rights..Corruption… Religion and culture… Companies… Parts 1 – 7 about institutions and systems…”
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International Business I

MOOC Summaries - International Business I

International Business I

Doug Thomas, Ph.D, Professor, International Management, Anderson School of Management
University of New Mexico
“We live in a world of intensifying global relationships, one in which international business has become the key determinant of economic development and prosperity. This course, Global Business Environment, Part I, introduces students to a fundamental understanding of the socioeconomic political, cultural, and linguistic environment in which international businesses operate…It surveys the global business environment by asking and answering key questions about society, the global economy, cultures, institutions and languages.”
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Big Data and Social Physics

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Big Data and Social Physics

Alex “Sandy” Peatland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
“directs MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program”
“… Understanding big data, how to use it to improve companies, cities, and government, and best-practice for privacy… Social physics is a big data science that encapsulates social, analytical, computer, and managerial sciences into a quantitative science of human society that can accurately predict patterns of human behavior and influence those patterns.  The core of social physics is using big data to understand how ideas flow from person to person through the mechanism of social learning and how this flow of ideas ends up shaping the norms, productivity, and creative output of our companies, cities, and societies… also tells us how to best deal with the privacy concerns…”
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