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This Entitlement of Free Needs to Go Away
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http://mashable.com/2008/07/10/entitlement-of-free-needs-to-go-away
Economics of POW Camp
economics, toread saved by: Eric more details ...
http://www.albany.edu/~mirer/eco110/pow.html
More on the future of Iraq's oil
In case you missed this bit from last month (I did), a number of no-bid contracts have been put in place to bring US oil giants (plus BP and Total) back to Iraq as "service" operators. An...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html
"Annual Expenditure on Luxury Iterms Compared with Funding Needed to Meet Selected Basic Needs"
Politically powerful, great example of effective design.
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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/12/sexy-bold-and-experimental-typography
There is place for everyone (free). | Common Challenge
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http://blog.dooyt.com/2008/07/02/there-is-place-for-everyone-free
Business Directory - Economics, Import and Export, Investment
AllBrowse.com is a comprehensive business directory providing numerous links to browse for business information, trade, export, import, investment, franchise oppotunities, companies, indu...
accounting, advertising, africa, agriculture, antiques, apparel, art, asia, automotive, banks, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.allbrowse.com
Commodity speculation and the cost of living
As high-tech stocks and real-estate investments have started to look less promising, financial speculators have turned to commodities. This is why energy and food prices have shot up so d...
bad_news, economics, economy, energy, food, global, news saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,559550,00.html
Department of Treasury
Department of Treasury site, good for finance and economics data
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http://www.ustreas.gov
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom - Times Online
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article4022091.ece
Martian Headsets - Joel on Software
economics, to.read saved by: Eric more details ...
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html
CharityFocus Blog: Parable of the Shoe Salesman
economics saved by: Eric more details ...
http://www.charityfocus.org/blog/view.php?id=1758
Possum Living
economics, to.read saved by: Eric more details ...
http://www.f4.ca/text/possumliving.htm
Paladin Press - Publishers of the Action Library
Paladin Press is the source for books and videos on personal and financial freedom, survival and preparedness, firearms and shooting, martial arts and self-defense, military and police ta...
books, combat, economics, freedom, guns, information, knowledge, liberty, martial_arts, military, More... saved by: deusdiabolus more details ...
http://www.paladin-press.com
The Prison-Industrial Complex
abuse, crime, economics, freedom, politics, prison, rights, taxes, usa saved by: deusdiabolus more details ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199812/prisons
Breakthrough: Economy Trumps Environment
If the wealthiest countries in the world want Brazil to develop sustainably, they must help it achieve what we ourselves achieved at great expense to our own forests.
2008, article, brazil, deforestation, development, economics, meisel, politics, powerful saved by: meryn more details ...
http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/05/the_economy_trumps_the_environ.shtml
Facebook and The Future of Competition - Harvard Business Online's Umair Haque
Facebook's most productive use today isn't as a social network, but perhaps more as a case study for the rest of us: of how not to think strategically [...] about strategy in an interconn...
2008, article, business, competition, economics, evil, facebook, google, haque, harvardbusiness, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/05/last_week_i_discussed_why.html
OnTheCommons.org » The Economics of Online Commons
Just as academics are paid by their host institutions, freeing them to interact as commoners within their disciplines, so artists might be paid via institutions that employ them.
2008, abundance, article, bollier, business, creative, donation, economics, exclusive, future, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1807
TED | Talks | Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics (video)
By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, [Wikipedia and Linux are] paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individu...
2005, benkler, collaboration, economics, opensource, ted, video saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/247
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...
Robert Costanza: Recession? (It's worse than that)
GDP was never intended to be a measure of citizens' welfare -- and it functions poorly as such. Yet it is used as a surrogate appraisal of national well-being in far too many circumstances.
2008, article, costanza, economics, happiness, health, measurement, taxation, welfare saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/16690966.html
Ecological economist Robert Costanza puts a price tag on nature | Grist
Costanza and his colleagues believe that putting a price on the services ecosystems provide (such as stabilizing the climate, providing biodiversity, and pollinating crops) alerts us to t...
2003, accounting, article, costanza, economics, grist, sustainability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2003/04/08/what
INTERview: Robert Costanza : UVM The View
We need to think of natural capital as a partner in providing human welfare with built capital and social capital and the other components of our economy.
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https://www.uvm.edu/theview/article.php?id=471
WorldChanging: Interview with Mark Anielski
Whether in measuring a sense of community or valuing ecosystem goods and services, better measures of progress can align us on the targets that really matter.
2008, accounting, awareness, economics, happiness, interview, measurement, socialcapital, sustainability, wealth, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008020.html
3 Ways to Determine Your Climate Change Strategy - Harvard Business Online's Memo to the CEO
Some companies are adapting out of near-term operational necessity, others are acting to mitigate long-term strategic vulnerabilities, and the most forward-thinking are devising ways to p...
2008, article, business, costing, economics, efficiency, globalwarming, harvardbusiness, howto, strategy, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://ceomemo.harvardbusiness.org/2008/05/3_ways_to_determine_your_clima.html
Dangerous Assumptions [PDF]
How big is the energy challenge of climate change? The technological advances needed to stabilize carbon- dioxide emissions may be greater than we think, argue Roger Pielke Jr, Tom Wigley...
2008, article, economics, globalwarming, innovation, investment, pielke saved by: meryn more details ...
http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/dangerous%20assumptions.pdf
The Facebook Effect - Harvard Business Online's Umair Haque
Fascism cannot hold in a world where power is getting more and more radically liquid by the nanosecond. It's a delusion; a kind of deep corporate psychosis; the blind fetishization of pow...
2008, article, business, economics, edgeconomy, facebook, haque, microsoft, power, socialnetworks, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/05/http20bitscom20080506thestateo.html
Herman Daly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herman Daly (born 1938) is an American ecological economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park in the United States.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Daly
The Oil Drum | Herman Daly: Towards A Steady-State Economy
Taxing what we want less of (depletion and pollution), and ceasing to tax what we want more of (income, value added) would seem reasonable—as the bumper sticker puts it, “tax bads, no...
2008, accounting, advertising, article, commons, daly, ecology, economics, energy, fairtrade, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3941
All of Inflation’s Little Parts - The New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080403_SPENDING_GRAPHIC.html
What Ever Happened to Not Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket? - Profy.Com
I've beaten the "It's not an app; it's a feature" drum quite a bit in the past, and it's for a reason: I'm concerned with the future of many of these companies when they bet their entire ...
2008, article, business, dependence, economics, monetization, power, strategy saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.profy.com/2008/05/07/web-20-eggs-in-one-basket
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Death of the SUV
Things have changed, abruptly and for the better. Status symbols are out. Cool to Be Frugal is in. A secular trend in downsizing is underway. Wall Street has still not caught on. Profits ...
2008, article, cars, consumerism, consumption, economics, frugality, trends saved by: meryn more details ...
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/05/death-of-suv.html
Author McKibben assesses current state of environmentalism, urges local consumerism
The melt of permafrost in the boreal north and the release of methane from beneath it is now underway in a big way. I'm not at all convinced that we're going to turn it around. If you wer...
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http://www.eenews.net/tv/transcript/794
Change We Can Stomach - New York Times
With the price of oil at more than $120 a barrel (up from less than $30 for most of the last 50 years), small and midsize nonpolluting farms, the ones growing the healthiest and best-tast...
2008, agriculture, article, economics, food, health, nutrition, nytimes, organic saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11barber.html
Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process - New York Times
Even as Congressional leaders draft legislation to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming, a powerful roster of Democrats and Republicans is pushing to subsidize coal as the kin...
2007, article, coal, economics, energy, nytimes, politics, subsidides, usa saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/business/29coal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Federal Loans for Coal Plants Clash With Carbon Cuts - washingtonpost.com
A Depression-era program to bring electricity to rural areas is using taxpayer money to provide billions of dollars in low-interest loans to build coal plants even as Congress seeks ways ...
2007, article, coal, economics, energy, politics, subsidies, usa, washingtonpost saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301105.html
Rewriting the book on economics | By Lissa Harris | Grist | Main Dish | 09 Apr 2003
if you want to convince people that something is wrong, you have to understand what it is you're talking about.
2003, article, daly, ecology, economics, farley, grist saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2003/04/09/the
Manfred Max-Neef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1983, Max-Neef won the Right Livelihood Award, known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize", for his work in poverty stricken areas of developing countries, in the area of "Human Scale Devel...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Max-Neef
WorldChanging: Joshua Farley, Ecological Economist
The reason people believe our demand for consumer goods is insatiable is because we use consumer goods to try and satisfy needs they are not capable of satisfying.
2006, consumerism, consumption, ecology, economics, education, farley, happiness, interview, measurement, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004143.html
There Is No Gas Shortage
I am very skeptical... but it's interesting nonetheless.
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http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/apr2008/bw2008041_945564.htm
Overcoming Bias
If we know the common patterns of error or self-deception, maybe we can work around them ourselves, or build social structures for smarter groups. We know we aren't perfect, and can't be...
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http://www.overcomingbias.com
Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized - washingtonpost.com
A growing chorus labeled Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's proposal for suspending the federal gasoline tax ineffective and shortsighted yesterday, even as she continued to paint Sen. Barack ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003575.html
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.
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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
What countries can do about cutting carbon emissions - The McKinsey Quarterly
In today’s energy environment, the economic case for investing in energy productivity is stronger than it has been for a generation.
2008, awareness, behavior, carboncapture, economics, globalwarming, investment, lifestyle, regulation, report, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/What_countries_can_do_about_cutting_carbon_emissions_2128
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
Peak oil | Salon News
We come to one of the biggest questions of our time: Is humanity wise enough not to pursue carbon-intensive alternative fuels, even though pretty much all of them are economically profita...
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/28/peak_oil_solutions