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Thanks for coming to visit my website. I am a Bernard Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, where I'm working on innovation policy. I'm also interested in other things, some of which I talk about on this website, where my opinions are my own and nobody else's.
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The last days of the scribe
20 November 2008
The scribes’ lament
A dying profession in the heart of the city
Locked in the grid: how we fail each other
1 October 2008
An essay about how the breakdown of civil society in Mexico leads to inefficiency.
Refrigerator factory diary
8 August 2008
Birth of the cool
Notes from The Little Tramp’s stamping ground
Telecoms in Mexico
10 July 2008
Slim’s pickings
More competition should help to drive down exorbitant phone charges
Higher education in Mexico
6 December 2007
A doctor takes charge
Big university, big scientific ambitions
Face value
13 October 2005
The master builder
How Lorenzo Zambrano built a global leader from modest origins in Mexico
Bankruptcy
7 July 2005
Round and round
A cross-border battle over a bankrupt Mexican satellite provider
The triumphs and travails of Ricardo Salinas Pliego
2 June 2005
Going South
A Mexican tycoon quits New York