{"id":1155,"date":"2008-01-03T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/03\/blame-is-a-primitive-response-entrepreneurship-is-a-much-better-one\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T12:51:22","slug":"blame-is-a-primitive-response-entrepreneurship-is-a-much-better-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2008\/01\/03\/blame-is-a-primitive-response-entrepreneurship-is-a-much-better-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame is a primitive response &#8211; Entrepreneurship is a much better one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          &#8220;If journalists spent as much time studying the lives of the poor as they do gazing at the rich, it would help us all keep our heads on straight.<\/p>\n<p>We would marvel at a world economy strange enough to sustain such gaps.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d learn not to blame the rich for the poverty of the poor, but we&#8217;d also learn not to blame the poor themselves. Blame is a primitive response. Entrepreneurship is a much better one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earth.columbia.edu\/articles\/view\/1804\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Jeffrey Sachs <\/a>,the Director of The Earth Institute, <span>Quetelet<\/span> Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Olympic Gold &#8211; It all starts with a dream&#8230;.\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/10\/olympic-gold-it-all-starts-with-a-dream\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Olympic Gold &#8211; It all starts with a dream&#8230;.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"An imaginary open letter: To those who would &#8216;engage&#8217; us&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/09\/an-imaginary-open-letter-to-those-who-would-engage-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An imaginary open letter: To those who would &#8216;engage&#8217; us&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some Barriers to Engagement\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/13\/some-barriers-to-engagement\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some Barriers to Engagement<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If journalists spent as much time studying the lives of the poor as they do gazing at the rich, it would help us all keep our heads on straight. We would marvel at a world economy strange enough to sustain such gaps. We&#8217;d learn not to blame the rich for the poverty of the poor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[36,65,73],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-enterprise","category-entrepreneurship","tag-community","tag-enterprise","tag-entrepreneurship","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}