The world is not enough…

… Certainly not if you are taking “World Economy” with Proff. Linda Lim. The Professor from Singapore has the distinction of having many students as Finance Misters in the South East Asian countries during the SEA crisis. Her knowledge on the SEA and her command on the third world countries’ economies can be matched by a few, if at all. However, when it can to taking classes she has a tough stick to guide us. No missing classes, no nonsense in class participation, 5-6 articles to read before every class and cold calls each time. She was any first yearite’s nightmare come true, especially if you are planning to skip classes to attend companies’ presentations or planning for a trip to an I-Bank in NYC. Starting from trade deficits to Current Accounts, monetary policies, Dollar devaluation, Yuan controls, IMF, World Bank, trade disputes, and culture we learnt it all in this capsule course thanks to this strict no-BS policy. So did I enjoy the class… the answer is tremendously… why… for besides the topics I mentioned earlier I learnt about cultures and economies of different countries from my classmates… for example Indonesia has third largest Muslim population in the world, Puerto Rico has a comparative advantage in Bio-tech and guess what in Beauty Pageants J… Singapore is planning on opening casinos to keep its metropolitan culture… Thailand’s Nike plant has the best labor standards in all its plants, and child labor is not bad from an Economics stand points… and last but not the least, finally…

… it brought back brought back the belief in me…. “That tolerance will succeed, that people will wake to the dawn, and that I would be able to keep some of my sensitivity outside the class to have free flow of ideas.”