Talk:Human capital flight

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message: The whole sections seem to have been taken verbatim, warts and all, from:
The Future of Post-Human Migration: A Preface to a New Theory of Sameness. 
The copyright issue aside (it could be the other way round: the author lifted it off Wikipedia, etc.], here are the pomo concepts employed by the author:
Dr Peter Baofu is the author of 59 new theories in 51 books (as of January 2012) which provide a visionary challenge to conventional wisdom in all fields of knowledge (i.e., the social sciences, the formal sciences, the natural sciences, and the humanities), with the aim for a unified theory of everything—together with numerous visions of future history.
As a polymath, he is known for his pioneering works on “cyclical-progressive migration,” “multifold history,” “reflective criminology,” “transcendent architecture,” “interactive semantics,” “transdisciplinary performing arts,” “interventive-reshaping geography,” “complex data analysis,” “creational chemistry,” “comparative-impartial literature,” “supersession computing,” “detached gambling,” “multilateral acoustics,” “metamorphic humor,” “heterodox education,” “post-human mind games,” “post-Earth geology,” “substitutive religion,” “post-cosmology,” “contrarian personality,” “post-ethics,” “multifaceted war and peace,” “post-humanity,” “critical-dialectic formal science,” “combinational organization,” “hyper-sexual body,” “law reconstruction,” “comprehensive creative thinking,” “hyper-martial body,” “multilogical learning,” “contingent urban planning,” “post-capitalism,” “selective geometry,” “post-democracy,” “contrastive advantages,” “ambivalent technology,” “authoritarian liberal democracy,” “the post-post-Cold-War era,” “post-civilization,” “transformative aesthetic experience,” “synthetic information architecture,” “contrastive mathematical logic,” “dialectic complexity,” “after-postmodernity,” “sophisticated methodological holism,” “post-human space-time,” “existential dialectics,” “unfolding unconsciousness,” “floating consciousness,” “hyper-spatial consciousness,” and other visions.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zezen (talk • contribs) 07:41, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be more helpful if you could identify specific similarities in text, rather than making a blanket accusation. Nick Cooper (talk) 11:36, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
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message: Dr. Bertoli has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:
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*Reference : Simone Bertoli & Herbert Brucker, 2008. "Extending the case for a beneficial brain drain," Working Papers - Economics wp2008_14.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa.
ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 16:00, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr. Bertoli's comment on this article 

message: User:Snooganssnoogans removed and changed a recent addition, saying "Nader is a politician, has absolutely no authority on this issue. The Collier text was not only poorly written but a poor reflection of the content."
The content was:
Ralph Nader states that the brain drain means "civil engineers, scientists, physicians, nurses, computer and communications specialists, logistical experts, architects and entrepreneurs" leaving countries that are in short supply of such people.
Paul Collier notes that current policies might be feed a vicious circle, in which situations in origin countries get worse because the educated leave, causing more people to flee.
I'd like to have some more opinions on this content. Do others also think that Nader's comments shouldn't be featured? It seems on-point and balances the abstract, economic or unrelativized/short-term gain claims a bit.
The content on Collier's comment was changed to say "Paul Collier argues that "many poor countries have too much emigration. I do not mean that they would be better with none, but they would be better with less."" and I don't think think that this made it better. I very much support improvements to any of my additions but I don't think this was done here. Instead imo it would better if the previous sentence would have been expanded by this one and if the wording was improved if it's really poorly written (no idea if it is). I mainly paraphrased these 2 parts of the article and don't think that the sentence poorly reflected the article's content:
Even what looks like a brain drain can sometimes be beneficial. When educated people emigrate and settle in a richer country, the poorer country suffers a direct loss; but by demonstrating that the effort to acquire education can end triumphantly, it can encourage many others to pursue an education, too. The brain drain becomes a reality only if too many of the educated leave.
Many on the left, for their part, don’t like to recognize that we’re taking away fairy godmothers. They prefer to believe that they’re helping poor people flee difficult situations at home. But we might be feeding a vicious circle, in which home gets worse precisely because the fairy godmothers leave.
If others also think that my sentence doesn't properly reflect the article I'd be happy if you could propose alternative ones.
--Fixuture (talk) 16:49, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snooganssnoogans' revert (Nader & Collier) 

message: I came to brain drain to learn about the history of the so-called brain drain in the sciences since the 1970s, with most popular example of mathematicians and physicists leaving the field to work in finance.  More recently, in the social sciences, you see anthropologists leaving the field to work in marketing, etc. Yet, this article says nothing about this phenomenon, and only focuses on the human capital flight aspect of the term. Viriditas (talk) 20:11, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation needed