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Chinese capitalism | The long march backwards | The Economist
A totally different take on china's supposed rise of capitalism.
capitalism, china, economy, socialism saved by: tizzle more details ...
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12333103
The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine
The men and women who masterminded the creation of the consumerist society understood that theirs was a political undertaking, and it will take a powerful political movement to change cou...
2008, capitalism, consumerism, consumption, culture, economics, essay, history, leisure, marketing, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2962
Comparing Climate Proposals: A Case Study in Cognitive Policy — Rockridge Institute
Think of this report as the start of a conversation about the ways people think differently about climate policy – and public policy in general.
2008, article, barnes, capitalism, commons, economics, framing, globalwarming, lakoff, ownership, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/comparing-climate-proposals-a-case-stud...
Ethical Corporation: Columnists - Corporate responsibility – An industry that has lost its way
The corporate social responsibility industry must get back to basics. The issues are far too important to be left in the current sea of confusion.
2008, article, business, capitalism, csr, economics saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5582&newsletter=24
What the MySpace generation should know about working for free | Re-public : re-imagining democracy
Sociable Web Media make people easier to use but we can’t let them (and them in us) get the best of us.
2008, article, capitalism, creativity, economics, myspace, re-public, scholz, socialmedia, work, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=138
Ethical Corporation: By Invitation - Sustainable enterprise – Redefining capitalism
Our current way of thinking and seeing the world has created global warming and global terrorism. We must use our newfound knowledge to create a paradigm shift to a more equitable global ...
2008, article, business, capitalism, caring, conversation, creativity, globalwarming, innovation, motivation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=4938
Anomalous Presumptions » Capitalists vs. Entrepreneurs
Viewing peer production as a threat is a symptom of an underlying issue with huge long-term consequences: In peer production, the interests of capitalists and entrepreneurs are no longer ...
2008, alignment, article, capitalism, commons, coordination, economics, entrepreneurship, harris, opensource, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://jed.jive.com/?p=23
Foreign Policy: Europe’s Philosophy of Failure
In France and Germany, students are taught that economic principles such as capitalism, free markets, and entrepreneurship are savage, unhealthy, and immoral.
capitalism, economics, education, europe, france, germany, politics saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4095
Economist's View: Markets Are Not Magic
Rampant privatization based upon some misguided notion that markets are always best, privatization that does not proceed by first ensuring that market incentives are consistent with the p...
article, capitalism, competition, economics, privatization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/02/markets_are_not.html
AlterNet: Tom Friedman's Folly: The Lies Behind 'Free Trade' ((Bad Samaritans review)
A new book on disastrous trade policies makes it clear that it's time to dismantle the barriers that keep so much of the world so poor.
article, bookreview, capitalism, economics, imf, neoliberalism, politics saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.alternet.org/story/75645
Why Bill Gates Hates My Book - By William R. Easterly - WSJ.com
Much research suggests that "picking winners" through government industrial policy hasn't worked. Winners are too unpredictable to be discovered by government bureaucrats, much less by ou...
article, capitalism, easterly, economics, poverty saved by: meryn more details ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120235183917849631.html
Social Business Entrepreneurs Are the Solution
Many of the problems in the world remain unresolved because we continue to interpret capitalism too narrowly. In this narrow interpretation we create a one-dimensional human being to play...
article, business, capitalism, economics, entrepreneurship, yunus saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.grameen-info.org/bank/socialbusinessentrepreneurs.htm
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves
The conditions that neoliberalism demands in order to free human beings from the slavery of the state [...] just happen to be the conditions required to make the elite even richer, while ...
2007, article, capitalism, economics, monbiot, neoliberalism saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2157197,00.html
Project Syndicate
Wolf fears that "the combination of the fragility of the financial system with the huge rewards it generates for insiders will destroy something even more important – the political legi...
2008, article, capitalism, delong, economics, politics, wolf saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/delong74
Anarchism and a moneyless economy - International Economy - Anarkismo
Questions we should devote more time to if we are to move from being protesters at the injustice of capitalism to being the advocates of a system that our friends and neighbours will see ...
2006, anarchism, article, capitalism, money, moneyless saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=2339
Foreign Affairs - Enviromanticism: The Poetry of Nature as Political Force - James P. Pinkerton
The overdeveloped Western world is hearing the call of a resurgent Romanticism blending love of nature, a critique of capitalism, and hard science. The mix could prove to be potent politics.
1997, article, capitalism, inglehart, pinkerton saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19970501facomment3765/james-p-pinkerton/enviromanticism-the-po...
apophenia: cultural sustainability
The idea of "cultural sustainability" is about companies whose actions offset the consequences of their presence (or disappearance).
2008, anthropology, article, boyd, business, capitalism, communities, culture, sustainability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/03/08/cultural_sustai.html
The End Of Work As You Know It
Over the next decade, the relentless march of computer power and Net connection speeds will bring more profound changes to work than anything we've seen so far.
2007, article, business, capitalism, collaboration, connectivity, crowdsourcing, economics, empowerment, feedback, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_34/b4047426.htm
When the Bottom Line Is Ending Poverty
While Gandhi's goal was the end of colonialism, Yunus' is just as grand: He means to reform capitalism to make it a tool for ending poverty.
2008, bookreview, capitalism, entrepreneurship, poverty, yunus saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_10/b4074085355044.htm
Market 3.0: the final version
Understanding Market 3.0 requires consideration of the architecture of the Internet itself and how this relates to the communications, security, technological and legal infrastructure of ...
article, capitalism, cook, economics saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=articles&action=detail&id=38754
Open Capital: Article: If not Global Captalism - then What? - by Chris Cook
My objective is to present a phenomenon I have observed and to speculate as to connections which may be made across several disciplines based upon new “a priori” assumptions.
2003, article, capitalism, cook, economics, law, llp saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.moq.org/forum/chriscook/ifnotglobal.html
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
When you try and "monetize your users", you accept the almost obscene assumption that people are meant to be pimped out, sold to the highest bidder, resources to be slashed, burned, and e...
2008, article, business, capitalism, edgeconomy, exploitation, haque, monetization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2008/03/are-social-networks-pimps.cfm
Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0
The most visible authors, writing about the Social Web are lawyers, legal scholars at elite universities, business strategists, and corporate social media consultants.
2008, capitalism, crowdsourcing, essay, firstmonday, ideology, scholz, web2.0, wikinomics saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2138/1945
The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook
It is impossible to understand my article without remembering the bizarre moment in the late-1990s when so many pundits believed that the Net had almost magical powers.
1998, 2005, altruism, anarchism, anarcho-communism, barbrook, capitalism, communism, copyright, culture, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_12/barbrook
Interview: 'Fukuyama: the end of history man' by John Gray | Prospect Magazine December 1995 issue 3
In Trust, Fukuyama identifies the cultural sources of differences in economic performance among different types of capitalism. He finds one source of divergence in the "social capital" em...
1995, capitalism, culture, education, emancipation, fukuyama, individualism, interview, legalism, modernization, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=4944
A Theory of Trust
The purpose of this theory sketch is to show the causes of the level of economic corporate development of a society using the theory as set out by Fukuyama in his book.
1998, business, capitalism, co-determination, competition, confucianism, culture, economics, ethics, fukuyama, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://webpages.charter.net/dbrews/trust.htm
Fukuyama: Trust
the future is the network organization and this will give a natural advantage to those societies that have a high degree of social trust.
1998, bookreview, capitalism, fukuyama, trust saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/3/3/hoogvelt.html
Bloggingheads.tv - diavlogs
2008, capitalism, economics, video saved by: meryn more details ...
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/9128
Stephen Marglin on the Future of Capitalism - FORA.tv
capitalism, inequality, video saved by: meryn more details ...
http://fora.tv/2008/02/14/Stephen_Marglin_on_the_Future_of_Capitalism
BGSL 2008-2010: Rethinking The Economic Institutions of Hypercapitalism - Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
The firm - the corporation, as the fundamental institution of production - is deeply and irrevocably broken. It's DNA is in shock. The corporation we've created is a monster; a form of or...
2008, article, business, capitalism, economics, haque, macropocalypse, moral-hazard saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2008/01/bgsl-2008-2010-rethinking-economic.cfm
debate: The end of the Organisation?
In an economy which is run for and by the owners of big business, the values which are predominant at all levels are those which support the continuation of the system based on free marke...
2008, article, business, capitalism, values saved by: meryn more details ...
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2008/02/21/debate-the-end-of-the-organisation
Edge: AFFECTIVE FORECASTING...OR...THE BIG WOMBASSA
Our ability to simulate the future and to forecast our hedonic reactions to it is seriously flawed, and that people are rarely as happy or unhappy as they expect to be.
2004, article, capitalism, consumption, gilbert, happiness, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gilbert03/gilbert_index.html
Reality Sandwich | The End of Money?
Our basic financial system in itself creates artificial scarcity, and induces competition and sociopathic behavior patterns that lead inexorably to disregard of the environment and mistre...
2008, capitalism, economics, essay, future saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.realitysandwich.com/end_money
The Internet as Catalyst for a Paradigm Shift
As we hurtle toward the third millennium, the emerging economic paradigm of the wired, digital, Information Age is beginning to undermine the structural relationships of manufacturer-base...
1994, capitalism, essay, strangelove saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1994/dec/shift.html
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Moral Economy of Web 2.0 (Part One)
By 2007, contradictions, conflicts, and schisms have started to appear within the Web 2.0 paradigm around the imperfectly aligned interests of media producers and consumers.
2008, article, capitalism, ethics, jenkins, morality, socialmedia, web2.0 saved by: meryn more details ...
http://henryjenkins.org/2008/03/the_moral_economy_of_web_20_pa.html
Quantum Business - October 4, 2004
"we seek to minimize the feeling that our world is governed not by laws of nature but by mad, impetuous barbarians driven by greed, need, and the desire for maximum power and booty."
2004, article, business, capitalism, greed saved by: meryn more details ...
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/10/04/8186806/index.htm
The Simple Dollar » Review: Born to Buy
I’ll admit that since I’ve read this book, I have witnessed many of the things discussed in the book - and they deeply bother me. In fact, this book made me inch ever closer to a comp...
2008, advertising, bookreview, capitalism, children, consumerism, marketing, schor saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/11/02/review-born-to-buy
The Carlat Psychiatry Blog: A Drug Rep Tells All
"Gift giving is the key," he said. "You are programmed as a human to reciprocate. You feel obliged to return the favor. As a matter of fact, the smaller the gift, the greater the sense of...
2008, article, capitalism, marketing, medicine, psychiatry, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-rep-tells-all.html
Technological Keys to Climate Protection: Scientific American
Patent protection, while promoting innovation, could slow the diffusion of these technologies to low-income countries unless compensatory actions are taken.
2008, article, capitalism, energy, innovation, investing, patents, sachs, sustainability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=keys-to-climate-protection
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Interview on Peer to Peer Politics with Cosma Orsi
It is [...] only a matter of time that open design communities striving for absolute quality, start making designs that will eventually be better than those that can be produced by for pr...
2008, abundance, bauwens, capitalism, commons, contribution, distributed, economics, future, gift-economy, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/interview-on-peer-to-peer-politics-with-cosma-orsi/2008/04/10
WorldChanging: Is Capitalism Growing More Socially Conscious?
As long as investors can maintain a good conscience without sacrificing profits, socially responsible investing is likely to flourish. But society and the environment will ultimately bene...
2008, capitalism, csr, sri, trends, worldchanging saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004873.html
Conscious Capitalism - FORA.tv
2008, capitalism, design, video saved by: meryn more details ...
http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=2417