Money Versus Wealth, David Korten, Issue # 2
According to the official wisdom, even though richer, we can no longer afford what we once took for granted. How is this possible? What's gone wrong?
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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 mistreatment of others.
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The end of management
Economic relations determine the social structures, that organisations exist to exploit the employer/employee relationship. [...] Changes in communications, no matter how promising are secondary to this.
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Stolper-Samuelson theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A rise in the relative price of a good will lead to a rise in the return to that factor which is used most intensively in the production of the good, and conversely, to a fall in the return to the other factor.
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Dani Rodrik's weblog: Deconstructing economists' take on free trade
instead of sticking to what they are good at--analyzing trade-offs-- [in the case of free-trade] economists typically engage in amateur normative political theorizing about what is good for society.
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Why Eating a Big Mac is Cheaper than Eating a Salad » Celsias
Almost 75% of U.S. government subsidies go into meat and dairy production, but less than half a per cent goes into fruit and vegetable production. Talk about an upside down world!
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Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Dethroning King Coal
It’s economics, as much as—if not more than–environmentalism, that’s helping to shift investment away from coal.
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Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Polysilicon Bonanza: Rising Supplies, Sinking Prices
Global polysilicon production is expected to double over the next two years. That should bring some sanity to the market – and cut into the enormous profit growth seen by polysilicon producers over the past two years.
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WorldChanging: Book review: “The Bottom Billion” by Paul Collier
While Collier’s work is significantly more nuanced than most popular books on development economics, he’s not exactly shy or soft-spoken.
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Social capital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Social capital, referring to connections within and between social networks, is a core concept in business, economics, organizational behaviour, political science, public health, sociology and natural resources management.
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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.
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Covey on Trust > Trusted Advisor Associates > Trust Matters
[Covey] makes a case that business hasn’t heard often enough: trust pays off, not just in some mufty-flufty New Age calculus (though that's true too), but as well in the conventional, traditional business language of ROI, efficiency and effectiveness.
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Biz Bytes : How Stephen Covey Taught Me to Trust
Trust in the business world is not a “soft skill.” It is a hard-edged economic driver with very real financial implications. When trust is in decline, so is productivity. He calls this theory the economics of trust.
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Income and Happiness: An Imperfect Link - New York Times
Mounting evidence suggests, however, that per-capita income is a less reliable measure of well-being when income inequality has been rising rapidly, as it has in recent decades.
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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 organization growing more pathological by the day.
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Beyond Greed and Scarcity by Bernard Lietaer - alternative monetary systems
YES!editor Sarah van Gelder talked to Bernard about the possibilities for a new kind of currency better suited to building community and sustainability.
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Bernard Lietaer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Lietaer is an economist and author. He studies monetary systems and promotes the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or Complementary currency, which circulate parallel with national currencies.
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Transaction Net: The Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer
Now more than ever it has become possible to address some of the most critical issues of our times, such as enabling more meaningful work, fostering cooperation and community, even realigning long-term sustainability with financial interests.
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frontline: high stakes in cyberspace: Stewart Brand | PBS
Brand is the founder of the WELL, a popular online service in San Francisco, and a pioneer of the electronic frontier.
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