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"If we think freedom means making your own choices and taking responsibility for them, big and complex financial capitalism doesn't meet the test in any simple way. It leaves too many people out of too many of the choices that shape their lives most basically. The only level where it's possible to exercise control over these decisions is political and legal. Regulations have their costs and problems, of course, but so does less regulation. Talking about freedom doesn't dissolve the question, and decisions about what kind of market to have are not avoidable -- although of course it is possible to ignore them and pretend we never made a decision. But that is thoughtlessness masquerading as tough-mindedness."
None of us has to work that hard unless we want to. Thanks to the new technology, we could work four-hour days or three-day weeks, or for only six months a year, or every other year and still make a living wage.
"Success for my generation will be a shift from business as usual to something Umair Haque calls “Betterness.” A transition from climbing the ladder of unfulfilling societal expectations and consumerism to blazing a trail with a life guided by a holistic focus on well-being, community and sustainability. Following a better path won’t be easy but as we lie dreaming under the glow-in-the-dark stars of our childhood room we know that it’s at least one dream worth fighting for."
"Just so we're clear - I'm not claiming that no-one can disagree with Green policies on rational grounds, or by disputing the facts. Of course they can. What I am claiming is that those disagreements do not come down to anything that might reasonably be described as "ideology" in the sense of a belief system unique to a small group. Where we do have fundamental guiding principles, those principles are at least notionally shared with most of society. The accusation that the Greens are acting out of ideology is just plain lazy."
"The article says that cheap and willing labor was indeed a factor in Apple's decision, in the early 2000s, to follow most other electronics companies in moving manufacturing overseas. But, it says, supply chain management, production speed, and flexibility were bigger incentives."
Delivered at Harvard University, April 13, 1996 (Two Parts) For those who are interested in the real world, a look at the actual history suggests some adjustment -- a modification of free market theory, to what we might call "really existing free...
Globalization and technological change increase the demands on workers; social decay makes it harder for them to meet those demands.
India’s economic policies have also been strongly influenced by US economics’ triumphalism during these years. Now US economists are turning inwards, wondering what went wrong at home."
Noam Chomsky's talk called "Controlling the Public Mind", taped March 1 1996, sponsored by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. Over 1000 people came to hear Dr.
Americans from across the political spectrum are angry that the Wall Street banks blew up the economy and got bailed out, while home owners and taxpayers were stuck with the bill.
“Liberal Hollywood (again is) depicting a successful businessman as evil,” Mr Bolling charged. “We’re teaching our kids class warfare. What are we, communist China?” Marxist or not, there is one thing I never knew about Kermit: Henson originally devised him as a lizard, not a frog."
Jonathan Barnbrook says last week's high court ruling was 'depressing' but the idea of what St Paul's protesters are doing is now in the mainstream 'and we can't go back' (RT @OccupyLSX: Designer of fab @occupylsx logo explains why he backed us
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FuelFixFracking: The new front of OccupySalonConsider this, then, an environmental Occupy Wall Street. It knows no divisions of social class or political affiliation. Everyone, after all, needs clean water.
A 'Facebook for the rich and famous' will be launched this week, allowing the world's most powerful figures to flirt and find friends with other equally rich and powerful people.
"What the book does, in short, is hijack other people's beliefs, empty them of content and redeploy them in the name of moral order, social consensus and aesthetic pleasure. It is an astonishingly impudent enterprise. It is also strikingly unoriginal. Liberal-capitalist societies, being by their nature divided, contentious places, are forever in search of a judicious dose of communitarianism to pin themselves together, and a secularised religion has long been one bogus solution on offer. The late Christopher Hitchens, who some people think is now discovering that his broadside God Is Not Great was slightly off the mark, would have scorned any such project. He did not consider that religion was a convenient fiction. He thought it was disgusting. Now there's something believers can get their teeth into …"
"However, his opinion of President Obama is that he is the only one who makes sense in the real world, as compared to the 2012 GOP candidates. Chomsky's remarks on the "U.S. Economic Crisis --- Joblessness, Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare" video below – are in vivid contrast to that of the Republican party"
"In The Culture of New Capitalism, Richard Sennett described some of the ramifications of the transition to post-Fordist production methods, which shift enterprise risk onto workers and demand that they be more flexible and to repeatedly prove their worth. He suggests that “if institutions no longer provide a long-term frame, the individual may have to improvise his or her life-narrative, or even do without any sustained sense of self.” Perhaps what we are experiencing now, thanks to the rise of social media, is both of these things at once."
"The global economy will need to create 600m jobs over the next decade to meet the "urgent challenge" of tackling the legacy of unemployment left by recession and to find work for those entering the labour force, according to the International Labour Organisation."
Yoko Ono, Debbie Harry, Jackson Browne and Willie Nelson are among dozens of artists contributing to “Occupy This Album,” to raise money for the Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality, a publicity firm said on Monday.
Since its publication in 1993, Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy has been hailed for changing the way academics and policy-makers approach the relationship between politics and society.
“We often interact with professionals who exercise their judgment with evident confidence, sometimes priding themselves on the power of their intuition,” Kahneman writes. “In a world rife with illusions of validity and skill, can we trust them? How do we distinguish the justified confidence of experts from the sincere overconfidence of professionals who do not know they are out of their depth?”
The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the 21st Century. The book has been entirely revised and updated throughout, including substantial new material on the financial crisis and the environment.
Burnout is a condition associated with exhaustion, stress, pessimism, cynicism, withdrawal and a bunker mentality. These symptoms are worrying in an individual, but can be disastrous in world affairs. In the run-up to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, there is a distinct sense of burnout in the air. I hope that this year's meeting will help to form a new model of leadership capable of overcoming this malaise.
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The Occupy movement, which went global after protests against Wall Street last year, is camping in igloos to bring its argument with the super-rich 1 percent to Davos.It (Davos man weighs future of capitalism: "The Occupy...
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