Romney's effort to make Bush look honest. (RT @Arianna8927: Paul Krugman on Romey's 24/7 lying: "At this rate, Romney will soon start lying about his own name.
Sarah Montague talks to Steve Keen, one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis, about the possibility of another Great Depressio...
Many modern economists missed the financial crisis and the economic problems we've seen since then, such as the eurozone debt crisis. Why? Well according to ...
Quinn Norton has completed her triumphant history of Anonymous's actions in 2011 for Wired and this installment is amazing, containing real insight into how the world sees Anon, how Anon sees itself, and how those two mix. I was really taken with the following section, which reminds me a lot of Clay Shirky's idea that the pre-Internet world was one of "select, then publish" but that now we live in the world of "publish, then select":
Everywhere we turn, we hear people asking “how long can it go on?” Whether it is financial crisis in the West, environmental pollution in the East, or increasing prices and natural disasters everywhere, there’s a growing sense of dystopia, and of the need for more fundamental reform of our economic and political systems. Mass protests can remove leaders, but what creates a lasting positive shift in society? And what are YOU doing about it? Rather than ask “how long can it go on”, it’s time to ask “how can we move on with essential changes?”
The Financial Times recently launched a series of articles on "Capitalism in Crisis". As we enter the fourth year of the global banking collapse and the long depression in real output for the maj...
Are there more poor people on our planet today than there were last year? Many economists would approach this question as mainly a technical problem, a matter of counting. Sanjay Reddy did, too, but soon recognized that a sound answer required making normative criteria explicit. Much confusion and many technical muddles in poverty measurement can be avoided, Reddy says, only if we become conscious and deliberate about how values enter the analysis. Fact and value are entangled, and Reddy shows how recognizing this leads to greater analytical clarity -- this is new economic thinking.
Antiwar?Com: Your Source for News?Pacific Free PressDuring the so-called “Green Revolution” in Iran, they reprinted his “Iran's Do-It-Yourself Revolution,” in which the well-paid chair of the academic advisory committee of Peter Ackerman's...
Broad Group, a Chinese construction company in Hunan Province has built a hotel. At 30 stories tall and 183,000-square feet, the hotel itself is nothing extraordinary. What is extraordinary is the time the company needed to build it.
Elite media -- self-admittedly corrupt and criminally negligent. It is undeniable proof of what we have been accusing the Times and all big media of. Much thanks to James O'Keefe. How the left is destroying America: ProjectVeritas.com investigation.
Labor communication academics and activists will come together during the III. International Labor and Communication Conference as a part of the Seventh International Labor Film Festival on the 7th and 8th of May 2012, in Ankara, Turkey.
How did Bill Gates become the richest man in America? His wealth has nothing to do with the production costs of what Microsoft is selling: i.e. it is not the result of his producing good software at lower prices than his competitors, or of ‘exploiting’ his workers more successfully (Microsoft pays its intellectual workers a relatively high salary). If that had been the case, Microsoft would have gone bankrupt long ago: people would have chosen free systems like Linux which are as good as or better than Microsoft products. Millions of people are still buying Microsoft software because Microsoft has imposed itself as an almost universal standard, practically monopolising the field, as one embodiment of what Marx called the ‘general intellect’, meaning collective knowledge in all its forms, from science to practical knowhow. Gates effectively privatised part of the general intellect and became rich by appropriating the rent that followed from that.
Are the choices provided by a market economy stressful? According to Prof. Mark Pennington, it can definitely be stressful to choose among several different ...
(Reuters) - Americans believe that there is more conflict between rich and poor than between immigrants and the native born or between blacks and whites, said a Pew Research Center opinion survey released (Americans say rich and poor in conflict: ...
Many traditional journalists see "citizen journalism" as a negative thing, an untrustworthy source of information that diminishes their role as gatekeepers of the news -- but New York Times foreign correspondent and author Nick Kristof says that he...
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