e-Commerce winners and losers

Here is a report on online shopping patterns related to the Covid-19 experience.

While this report notes a decline in camera purchases, I believe that it is the improvement of cell phones' cameras that is the real reason.  After all, my cell phone takes better pictures than my 8 year old digital camera.

Stay well and shop local instead of online if you can. 

Meghann Ormond's work on Medical Tourism

Got an email today from Meghann Ormond who shared a bibliography on the subject. Seems her research is on Medical Tourism:

Abstract:

This thesis examines the shifting relationship between the state and its subjects with regard to responsibility for and entitlement to care. Using Malaysia as a case study the research engages with international medical travel (IMT) as an outcome of the neoliberal retrenchment of the welfare state. I offer a critical reading of postcolonial development strategies that negotiate the benefits and challenges of extending care to non-national subjects. Read More

Professor Ormond is also presenting at the AAG in Seattle next Spring.