• OPINION

  Gimmicks won't bridge wealth gap

  News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 04/07/2012

  » Thais possess almost an unlimited supply of proverbs and sages' sayings, which they often quote to justify or rationalise what they do. One of them is this: Follow a big person, so that dogs don't bite.

• OPINION

  The universal truth of sufficiency economy

  News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 06/06/2012

  » The Great Recession of 2008 has been bad for most people, with one exception perhaps _ those who write about it. As I wrote in this column on April 28, 2010, I had counted 34 books on the subject published in the United States up to that point. Many more have come out since.

• OPINION

  Healthy GDP does not mean healthy people

  News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 02/05/2012

  » Last week, when I first saw the BBC news headline, "Population and consumption key to future, report says," I thought, "Here we go again." And it has panned out just the way I thought it would.

• OPINION

  The broken, cluttered pavements theory

  News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 04/04/2012

  » Professor James Q Wilson passed away last month with little notice, except perhaps for those who are familiar with the "Broken Windows Theory" that he and George L Kelling proposed through an article published in the March 1982 issue of Atlantic Monthly magazine.

• OPINION

  Some self-evident truths

  News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 07/03/2012

  » With apologies to the writers of the United States' Declaration of Independence, the following sentence seems to have rung in my ears every time I scanned the daily headlines or watched events unfolding on television these past few months: "These truths are held to be self-evident, that the executive branch is irresponsible, that the legislative branch is in shambles, that the judiciary branch is undependable, that Thailand is shamelessly corruptible."

• OPINION

  A question for Bill Gates about resources

  News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 01/02/2012

  » Truth be told _ I am a fan of Bill Gates; thus I am more interested in what he says and does than whatever comes out of politicians during the week of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

• OPINION

  From the year of fury to the year of doom?

  News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 05/01/2012

  » With a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hitting Japan in March, causing vast destruction and leaving nearly 20,000 people killed or missing, 2011 should register as one of the years that the four elements _ earth, air, fire and water _ had unleashed its most destructive fury.

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