Policy Innovations
Encyclopedia
Policy Innovations is an online magazine
that covers how ethics
and innovations can combine to form a fairer globalization
. It is a nonprofit media venture housed at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
in New York City. The project began in 2004 with funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
, and the magazine component launched on September 6, 2006.
The magazine disseminates news analysis, commentary, interviews, audio, and innovative proposals for both reforming globalization
and harnessing its power to lift people out of poverty. It also tells the success stories of NGOs and other social entrepreneurs, such as Nobel Prize
-winner Muhammad Yunus
. The topics that appear frequently in Policy Innovations include human rights
, the role of business and civil society
, climate and environmental policy, the Asian economies, and cultural shifts brought about by globalization.
Policy Innovations also maintains a database of organizations and individuals working on global social justice, as well as a library of academic papers on the economics of globalization and social change.
Devin T. Stewart is the founding editor of Policy Innovations, and Evan O'Neil is the managing editor.
Online magazine
An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control...
that covers how ethics
Ethics
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...
and innovations can combine to form a fairer globalization
Globalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
. It is a nonprofit media venture housed at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is a New York City-based a 5013 public charity serving international affairs professionals, teachers and students, and the attentive public. Founded in 1914, and originally named Church Peace Union, Carnegie Council is an independent and...
in New York City. The project began in 2004 with funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund , , is an international philanthropic organisation created and run by members of the Rockefeller family. It was set up in New York City in 1940 as the primary philanthropic vehicle of the five famous Rockefeller brothers: John D...
, and the magazine component launched on September 6, 2006.
The magazine disseminates news analysis, commentary, interviews, audio, and innovative proposals for both reforming globalization
Globalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
and harnessing its power to lift people out of poverty. It also tells the success stories of NGOs and other social entrepreneurs, such as Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
-winner Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize...
. The topics that appear frequently in Policy Innovations include human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
, the role of business and civil society
Civil society
Civil society is composed of the totality of many voluntary social relationships, civic and social organizations, and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society, as distinct from the force-backed structures of a state , the commercial institutions of the market, and private criminal...
, climate and environmental policy, the Asian economies, and cultural shifts brought about by globalization.
Policy Innovations also maintains a database of organizations and individuals working on global social justice, as well as a library of academic papers on the economics of globalization and social change.
Devin T. Stewart is the founding editor of Policy Innovations, and Evan O'Neil is the managing editor.
Contributors and Advisors
- David Abshire
- Philip Auerswald
- Harriet Babbit
- Steve Clemons
- Jean-Marc CoicaudJean-Marc CoicaudJean-Marc Coicaud is Professor of Law and Global Affairs, and Director of the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University.-Career:Prior to joining Rutgers, from 2003 to 2011, he served as the Director of the Office at the Headquarters in New York City. From 1996 to 2003, he was Senior...
- Jayati GhoshJayati GhoshJayati Ghosh was educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University , and the University of Cambridge. Her 1984 doctoral thesis at Cambridge University was titled "Non capitalist land rent: theories and the case of North India" under the supervision of Mr T Byres.She is now Professor of...
- Nikolas GvosdevNikolas GvosdevNikolas N. Gvosdev is the former Editor of the bi-monthly foreign policy journal, The National Interest. He was appointed to the post in 2005, after having been the journal's Executive Editor and the founding Editor of the journal's now-defunct separate web edition, In The National Interest...
- Sasha IssenbergSasha IssenbergSasha Issenberg is an American journalist. His articles have been published in Philadelphia Magazine, Slate, The Washington Monthly, the Boston Globe, Monocle and George Magazine, where he was a contributing editor...
- Jomo K.S.
- Sherman Katz
- Rebecca MacKinnonRebecca MacKinnonRebecca MacKinnon is a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo, before leaving television to become a blogger and co-founder of Global Voices Online. She is on the Board of Directors of the Global Network Initiative and the Committee to Protect Journalists,...
- Neela MarikkarNeela MarikkarNeela Marikkar is the Chairperson of the Grant McCann Erickson, a leading Communications Group in Sri Lanka in partnership with Mccann Worldgroup, USA.-Biography:Neela is a daughter of the legendary Sri Lankan media personality Reggie Candappa....
- Moisés NaímMoisés Naím-External links:****...
- Thomas PoggeThomas PoggeThomas Winfried Menko Pogge is a German philosopher and is currently the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University...
- Iqbal QuadirIqbal QuadirIqbal Z. Quadir , founder of Gonofone and Grameenphone. He is currently the Founder and Director of the Legatum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of Advisory Board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology...
- Mary RobinsonMary RobinsonMary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate...
- Jeffrey SachsJeffrey SachsJeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the...
- Peter SingerPeter SingerPeter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...
- Jerry Sternin
- Joseph Stiglitz