= Borderless Economics =
=== Robert Guest Palgrave 2011 978-0230113824 ===
=== booknotes ===

 . 2009: 215 million, 3%, living outside their native country
  . 50% increase since 1990
 . networks - friends and family connecting across borders to build businesses
  . examples: Baidu founder, Rothschild
  . spreads resources to survive disasters
  . trust, inside knowledge, 
 . escalator migration - US via Australia/UK/Canada
 . Scientific collaboration
 . Microbanking via cell phone
 . pg 125 example, Salvadorian moves from above average salary to below average
 . US now 20% of overseas students, was 28% in 2001
 . 30% of MIT foreign students found companies (half in US)
 . Obama "brand effect" $2.1T in first year
 . US Border patrol 1993/3500 2010/17000
  . $285B to round up and expel 11 million
 . Home ownership and Medical insurance kills mobility
  . halved since 1960

 . China - 1/3 territory not ethnic Han
  . 60 million overseas Chinese
  . "Sea Turtles" - foreign educated abroad
  . 800K Taiwan on mainland, > $90B investment
  . 2003-2011 325K studied abroad and returned
  . 2/3 since 1978 remained abroad
  . 21% ministers/assistants foreign educated
  . Jack Ma, Hangzhou, Alibaba, Alipay, Ali-loan, Taobao, 57M users 2011, 
  . 80% of population satisfied, national pride
   . main complaint corruption (80K mass protests/year)
  . poverty:  1990-60%, 2010-10% ( < $1/day )
  . 800,000 millionaires
  . Twitter -> Sina , Google -> Baidu
  . 
 
 . Indian Diaspora  25 million
  . 2/3 of grain for poor is stolen or adulterated
  . Nandan Nilekani / Srikanth Nadhamini / Jim Clark build UID system 
  . Jamshyd Godrej - Chotu Kool $70 solid state fridge
  . Munesh Makhija - Handheld heart scanner
  . Singh brothers, Fortis hospital system
   . Doctors focus on medicine, not admin
 
  . Pew surveys
   . US Muslims, suicide attacks sometimes justified: 15% under 30 , 6% over 30
   . Al Queda 2003 to 2009 approval: Indonesia 59%-26%  Lebanon 19%-1%, Gaza/WestBank 72%-34%