The MGS Blog

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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Reflecting on "Gravity" versus "Weightless" trade models

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Chris Grey includes a brief exposition on the fallacy of political actors claiming the emergence of a new “post-geography trading world” (po...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Freelancing crowdsourcing

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Digital platform companies in the mediated freelancing microwork space include Upwork (rebranded merged entity Elance-oDesk). Uber, MTurk, D...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Select a country for your research project - exercise

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Open the shared spreadsheet and choose a country for your research project. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w_q9oBGoAOd7A9RDAavYWgas...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Provisions against outsourcing

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 The provisions of the proposals for '"Building Momentum": A new public service agreement, 2021-2022' retains protections ...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

A post from The Reg "Offshoring is kind of over..."

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Claims that "offshoring is kind of over, says Wipro, as financials surge thanks to offshoring" Yet the whole basis for the article...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Still current, still true - the problems of outsourcing and how to solve them

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An article by InVerita via Medium https://medium.com/@inverita #1 Data security risk #2 Not planning your budget ahead #3 Time zone differen...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Why we get a better cup in Ireland than all the tea in China

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This article by Conor Pope (Irish Times) provides an interesting view on the Irish love of tea and its relatively recent history and in part...