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William Deresiewicz: Faux Friendship | The Chronicle of Higher Education
relations in traditional societies were dominated by interest. But what is to bind us emotionally, make us something more than an aggregate of political monads? One answer was nationalism, but another grew out of the 18th-century notion of social sympathy
Clay Shirky on journalism’s future: Revolutions get worse first
civic corruption is just going to rise for towns and regions of under about half a million people. Which is to say, I think the old model of the newspaper is going to break faster than the hyperlocal civic reporting can come in its place.
John Kay: The future of markets | openDemocracy
If we could predict the evolution of markets, we would not need markets in the first place. The recent development of [industrial] competition policy has focussed almost entirely on equilibrium model of ‘prices as signals’, in which profitable transactio
Erik Olin Wright: Envisioning Real Utopias
Along with “where there is a will there is a way”, the human struggle for emancipation confronts “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. What we need, then, is “real utopias”: utopian ideals that are grounded in the real potentials of humanity,
Neoliberal Penality: The Birth of Natural Order, the Illusion of Free Markets by Bernard Harcourt
Freminville’s dictionary covered the grain industry exhaustively, and there were in fact so many regulations of the market that, for the dictionary entry on “Marchés” Freminville merely refers the reader, by cross reference, to another entry. His dictiona
Barry Weingast, Douglas North, John Wallis: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
why did cultural generations only show up in the mid-to-late 19th C. after industrialization? Quite simply, the ability to form organizations of all kinds was restricted before then. Only after transitioning from a limited access order -- or a "natural st
Sean Cubitt: After Tolerance. Post-Cartesian Community, Post-Kantian Cosmopolitanism (pdf)
Paper prepared for The Internet as Labor and Playground, A Conference on Digital Labor, Eugene Lang
College, The New School, New York, Nov 12-14 2009
George Akerlof - The market for "lemons": Quality uncertainty and the market mechanism (pdf)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/public.html
Beyond Dichotomy: The Curvilinear Relationship Between Social Responsibility and Financial Performance (pdf)
Barnett, M. & R. Salomon. 2006. Beyond Dichotomy: The Curvilinear Relationship Between Social Responsibility and Financial Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 27: 1101-1122. (http://www.robertsalomon.com/research.html)
Twilight of the Efficient Markets » American Scientist review by Cosma Shalizi
Efficient-market theory ought, with any methodological justice, to be relegated to the Museum of Nice Tries. But there is no unified replacement theory, and developing one will be arduous, involving empirical and theoretical work on all scales, from the e
How to Pay with Attention on the Web - pixelsebi's posterous
Companies like http://offerpal.com or the German startup http://sponsorpay.com already give consumer an "value equivalent" for paying attention to brands, and those brands then pay content producers in cash.
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