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Editorial
Chief
editor Lesley Pocock
Welcome
to the third edition of the Middle
East Journal of Business.
In
our first two editions we featured
the theme of economic humanism, and
we received so many contributions
on various aspects of this theme that
we ran the ‘International Journal
of Economic Humanism and Sustainability’
(IJEHS) as a subset of the
MEJB.
As
from this issue, the IJEHS will be
available from its own website, where
it has also undergone a name change.
The new journal will be called the
New Paradigm, - the International Journal of Economic Humanism, Sustainability,
Ecology, Science and Medicine.
It will be available from www.NewParadigmJournal.com
and will be launched at the end of
March 2006.
In
keeping with this theme however, the
MEJB will feature in coming issues,
young Middle East business people
with a humanistic approach to business.
We welcome features and articles on
this theme.
The
March 2006 edition of the MEJB, continues
to provide a series of thought-provoking
and challenging range of topics. The
Economics section of the journal features
articles generated by both UNESCO
and the UN, and well-known economist,
Hazel Henderson questions why ‘Economics’
has been accorded the title of a ‘science’,
and thus qualifies for a Nobel prize.
The
2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
(in Memory of Alfred Nobel) was recently
announced. The winners, Robert Aumann,
of the Hebrew University in Israel
and Thomas Schelling of the University
of Maryland, USA, are mathematicians
and game theorists. Peter Nobel, descendant
of Alfred Nobel and a human rights
lawyer, believes it was a public relations
effort to legitimise economics as
a science.
The
Politics section of the journal features
articles again focused on ‘the big
picture’ and which strive for equality
for all, but as a necessary pre-requisite
for survival on an over-populated
and sadly depleted planet.
An
interesting new section on Evolutionary
biology, looks at the place of
the human mind, in evaluating our
evolution so far, and the place of
the human mind in global problems,
such as terrorism.
These
are supplemented by worthy articles
on ecology, religion and science and
the responsibility of the media to
not always cater to the lowest common
denominator, and to take some ethical
responsibility when it comes to the
selection of material to be published/displayed.
As
usual, we hope this selection of articles
challenges all readers to also consider
these issues when it comes to their
own business and personal activities.
Lesley
Pocock
Chief
Editor
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