Probably my most favorite protest song of all time is Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.  And why not?  After all, "you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant."

Anyway, Arlo used his catchy tune to try to expand his effort to stop the war in Vietnam.  Can you imagine, if just one person started singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant, he told us, and then another person, in time you could start a movement.  In truth, there was already a movement, but Arlo did add to it with his Thanksgiving-time soliloquy.

Regardless, in a way I have been trying to do the same thing with two of my major efforts: (1) Globanomics; and (2) China Is a Paper Tiger.  Since my audience is smaller than Arlo's (smaller even than the Arlo's audience at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967), it will probably take some time before you will see a movement towards "globanomics" or the recognition that "China is a paper tiger", but it is starting.

In the last couple of weeks i have been sending my two "China is a paper tiger" Talkmarkets' articles out to several professors and educators at some of the best business schools in the country (e.g., Wharton, Stanford, Columbia, Indiana).  I have been doing this for two reasons: (1) to expand my audience; and (2) to let the supposed guru's debate me on the premise for my globanomic theory and principles.

How successful have i been?  Out of the probably 200 individual emails that i have sent out, i received one response--"very interesting material" from one of the Wharton professors.  Out of the probably 200 emails that i have sent out, about forty actually looked at least one of the two articles.  

Not a great record, but it is still a start for my movement to change the view of China as an economic threat. 

On a more positive note, however, i have also been tracking the views to my "The Difference Between Globanomics, Finance, and Economics" article, thinking that the China articles might lead one to investigate globanomics.  The two efforts (China, Globanomics) are somewhat exclusive of each other, because i have not sent out the globanomics article to anyone, but globanomics is mentioned in the China articles.  

What i have noticed is that the views for my globanomics article (which currently stands at 1250) has picked up these past couple of weeks, averaging about 40 new views for each of the past two weeks.  At that rate i should have about 3,250 views by this time next year.  In ten years there will be about 21,250 views--hardly enough to start a "real movement", but then who knows--those who view my globanomics articles are probably skewed to the higher end of the finance and economic community.

Regardless, i will still keeping punching away, while i wait for my Talkmarkets blog audience to also begin supporting my effort by getting in touch with their friends, associates, colleagues, etc., too.  With a little help, we could change the linear aspect of the viewing of globanomics and turn it more into an exponential viewing aspect.

Since exponentiality is part of globanomics, who knows how the time profile for that new movement could change. 

In case you are not familiar with the above referred to articles, the links to them follow:

Jim Boswell Blog | China Is A Paper Tiger - It's Time To Fully Implement Globanomics | Talkmarkets

Jim Boswell Blog | The China Is A "Paper Tiger" Thing Revisited | Talkmarkets

Jim Boswell Blog | The Difference Between Globanomics, Finance, And Economics | Talkmarkets