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Wall Street & Technology : Light Speed and The Buttonwood Tree
centralization, communication, innovation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=56900894
Enterprise Resilience
In a world of ever-increasing complexity, connectivity, and turbulence, it is time to abandon the mechanistic view of the enterprise as a controllable artifact, and to view it instead as ...
adaptation, centralization, diversification, fortification, innovation, transformation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.resilience.osu.edu/EnterpriseResilience.html
The Future Europe—Yet Again
Once one realizes that among the reasons for Western development was jurisdictional competition, one sees that EU enlargement (if it succeeds) could become synonymous with suicide.
centralization, competition, cooperation, legislation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2006/02/the_future_euro.html
Comment on the French Employment Law Riots
The conflict between employment insiders and employment outsiders can help explain why college students, who are future insiders, and unionists, who are current insiders, make up the bulk...
affiliation, centralization, congregation, exclusion, inhibition, motivation, opposition, subversion, transition saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/03/comment_on_the_2.html
Where's the Proof that Law's a Good Thing?
Even if modern legal systems provide certain benefits to large portions of the population, [they bring] a host of negative outcomes as well, often related to the inhibition of individual...
centralization, coercion, detoriation, evolution, inhibition, jurisdiction, oppression, regulation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.dennisfox.net/papers/proof.html
Europe’s Free Riders
It is the ECB’s willingness to, in effect, accept all euro-zone debt as collateral that has undermined the market’s willingness to be an enforcer of fiscal prudence.
centralization, coercion, defection, protection, regulation, retribution, toleration saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/delong45
Portland Planning System Breaking Down
Residents are fed up with the increasing congestion, [the misallocation of funds], the insider dealings and no-bid contracts, and unaffordable housing caused by the urban-growth boundary ...
allocation, centralization, coordination, regulation, restriction saved by: meryn more details ...
http://commonsblog.org/archives/000646.php
Shouldn’t the Wisdom of Crowds lead to better politicians?
When we talk politics (at least in the U.S.), it’s always follow the leader, or follow the party. We’ve broken the game, and now the only way to win is to choose one of two sides.
centralization, consultation, decentralization, imitation, indoctrination, perception saved by: meryn more details ...
http://bokardo.com/archives/shouldnt-the-wisdom-of-crowds-lead-to-better-politicians
John Stossel's 'Stupid in America'
Competition inspires people to do what we didn't think we could do. If people got to choose their kids' school, education options would be endless.
centralization, competition, education, regulation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338
Korean Bloggers
The incredible difference in the blogging scene and the apparent happiness with what the people had considering the widespread adoption made me wonder if the Korean blogs would ever look ...
accustomation, addiction, adoption, attraction, centralization, connection, conversation, evolution, institutionalization, participation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/06/02/korean_bloggers.html
Whose European Higher Education?
is it "time for coordination on a European level?" I think the question assumes too much agency, especially at the side of national governments. Whether it is time or not, it is happening...
centralization, cooperation, coordination, education, europeanisation, motivation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blog.beerkens.info/2006/08/whose-european-higher-education.html
My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog
This is exactly the feeling I have been having the past few days. Posted to Twitter twice today with this very topic in mind.
article, blog, centralization, control, social graph saved by: seanabrady more details ...
http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/03/my-social-map-i.html