The Future Has Already Happened

The diaspora has already begun

Purpose – In MIP, Vol. 25 No. 1, Mike Saren argued that academic marketers need to move beyond our “traditional managerial and business confines”. This paper aims to suggest that the discipline is already on the move in that direction, and that social marketing is in the vanguard. Design/methodology/approach – Commissioned as a viewpoint, with permission to “think aloud”. Findings – The paper s...

What has happened to the poorest 50 % ?

The evidence we have on chronic poverty and the fortunes of the poorest people suggests that a significant proportion of the poor, between one quarter and one half, are chronically poor in low and lower middle income countries. Using the limited available data covering the last 20 years, this paper examines whether those that were poor in the 1990s could plausibly still be poor today despite in...

Global Change, Fisheries, and the Integrity of Marine Ecosystems: The Future Has Already Begun

Given that the sun continues to shine as it does now, the physicists can tell us that further increases of greenhouse gases will cause the Earth's atmosphere to become warmer, a strong and most probably correct prediction. Meteorologists and other atmospheric scientists-especially those with access to global climate models-can predict the regional structure of the climate that should result, in...

[Stem cells use in the treatment of neurologic disorders--has the future already arrived?].

Auschwitz has Happened: An Exploration of the Past, Present, and Future of Jewish Redemption