Alfonso Morales's blog

Folks,

Kenny Cupers is joining in with much interesting work found at:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~cupers/streetvending.html

Please follow his work!

ciao from Florence!

Hello from Berlin Germany!

I'm giving two lectures here at the Tech University of Berlin - found here:

http://www.geschundkunstgesch.tu-berlin.de/fachgebiet_neuere_geschichte/menue/home/

The first is obvious - it has my name on it and went well - the ppt is on Markets Journal.

The second is tomorrow morning - part of a workshop organized by two PhD candidates who are affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Noa Ha and Kristina Graaff, and what a great conference they have put together.

Street commerce is not well developed here in Berlin - the reasons are complex and perhaps I, or someone else will explore them in another post. But, having said that there is some activity on the street, itinerant vendors and some who seem to locate in the day after day...in any case this conference is focused on comparative vending in the U.S. and Germany and I'm excited to hear the work which will be presented tomorrow!

Friends!

Openair is going through another redesign to make it more functional for academics, vendors and market managers, and policy makers.

Stay with us as we improve! The redesign will be complete by the end of May!

all best,
Alfonso

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is used by business and government to classify and measure economic activity in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Office of Management and Budget’s Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC) announced it is soliciting proposals from the public for changes to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) structure and content to be included in a potential 2012 revision.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US WHO WORK ON MARKETS AND MERCHANTS. Merchants were once a census occupation category and right now we cannot disaggregate from existing categories to know what is happening in the "street" economy.

I have a draft of a letter to NAICS which could help you in your comment.

You can see the call here: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-60.pdf

If you are interested in collaborating on comments about NAICS, in particular, comments about markets and merchants, please contact me.

San Francisco - April - see the attachment! see you there!