economy - Articles Archive
from April 20, 2007 to January 1, 2005

 

 


Web 2.0 is changing the way colleges and universities interact with their students. Photo credit: Nikolay Okhitin In the shift from an intellectual economy of push, to one of pull, the evolving participatory media are making their impact felt . It is no longer enough to pump ... read more

John Thompson - Innovate - April 20, 2007
 

by Rudo de Ruijter Our politicians have shaped the idea many people have of our world. They have divided our world into good and bad. Of course, they are the good guys and the ones they accuse are the bad guys. Simple, isn't it? However, if we ... read more

Rudo de Ruijter - August 19, 2006
 

On July 27, 2000, online video news reporter and California-based Marc Strassman, interviewed Pulitzer-winning author Ross Gelbspan about his recently-published book on global warming, The Heat is On. As the San Fernando Valley, where Solar World, the forward-looking alternative energy digital news magazine published by Marc ... read more

Marc Strassman - Etopia Media News - July 31, 2006
 
We need to "see" through information. Visual imagery can tell stories and truths which would be very hard to capture and communicate otherwise. While we need to badly see how the world is changing from a comprehensive and ... read more

Hans Rosling - TED Conference 2006 - Ted Talks - July 1, 2006
 

The imminent demise of the US dollar as the kingpin of economic transactions world wide is predicted by several commentators. Johnny 'Silver Bear' comments that the Federal Reserve has kept the printing presses rolling too liberally for too long and he continues: "The Fed has lost ... read more

Silvano Borruso and Sepp Hasslberger - Hasslberger.com - June 19, 2006
 
Income tax a fraud? Aaron Russo is the music and show business entrepreneur who has stepped out and produced a radical movie called "America: From Freedom to Fascism" which has received standing ovations in theatres from all around the country during its preview period. Aaron ... read more

 

In the background of the political joust about Iran, a few countries are reshaping the world. They are taking possession of the global nuclear fuel market. New IAEA regulations should keep newcomers away. The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and Japan will become world's nuclear ... read more

Rudo de Ruijter - May 8, 2006
 

Paying without cash and without going through a bank may seem an impossible proposition. Not so, says Ryan Fugger, the architect of Ripple, an open-source bank-independent payment system that is now in Beta release, meaning it's open to play with and test. Photo credit: Mikael Damkier Conceived ... read more

Sepp Hasslberger - Hasslberger on Physics - Economy - New Energy - March 27, 2006
 

Branded content is nothing short of a punch-drunk-fighters reaction to the paradigm shifting changes in our media and consumption habits. The rules have changed and it seems that interestingly advertisers are in a scramble to get out of the ad spot and into content generation. Soap ... read more

Alan Moore - SMLXL - March 14, 2006
 
Is it possible that American citizens are all targets of a runaway government, intent on exerting it's power and expressing it's will - despite the law? Photo credit: Ophelia Cherry If you have been constantly watching TV news beamed out by mainstream TV networks I am sure it ... read more

Robin Good - March 11, 2006
 

Michel Bauwens concludes his major essay on P2P economics by looking at the opportunities that would lead the economics of peer to peer to become increasingly important forces in the emerging new rich marketplaces created by information surplus, distributed technology, and by those instances where the ... read more

Michel Bauwens - Ctheory.net - March 6, 2006
 

Michel Bauwens takes us further in this explorative journey into better understanding the true nature, characteristics and potential value of peer-to-peer (P2P). Photo credit: Neil Gould In this essay (part II of three - part I ) he explores P2P as an alternative production modality, and gives useful ... read more

Michel Bauwens - Ctheory.net - February 27, 2006
 

Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a deeper transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. Photo credit: Joseph Zlomek As political, economic, and social systems transform themselves into distributed networks, a new ... read more

Michel Bauwens - Ctheory.net - February 20, 2006
 

"When citizens are convinced that interest - which ought to be correctly called usury - on money is necessary, they accept without question the current state of violence, war, poverty, scarcity and lack that continues to dominate the world in a negative fashion as we progress ... read more

Tom J. Kennedy [via Chris Gupta] - Share The Wealth - January 16, 2006
 

A Justice of Peace (civil judge) in the southern Italian town Lecce has decided that the Italian Central Bank's practice to retain the seignorage on paper money for its own profit is illegal and that the money should be turned over to its rightful owners - ... read more

Rosaria Amato [via LaLeva.org] - La Repubblica - October 10, 2005
 
"In 2002, Professor Benkler published a seminal essay with the provocative title "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm." In Coase's Penguin Professor Benkler states that for decades we have lived with two major ways in which individuals organize economic production: ... read more

Irving Wladawsky-Berger - August 19, 2005
 
Interest is steering us towards non-sustainability, argues Jeremy Wakeford, writing for the South African New Economics Network, a group described on their site as an independent network for the creation of a humane, just, sustainable and culturally appropriate economic system in South Africa. Not only does interest ... read more

Sepp Hasslberger - August 15, 2005
 

Conceived by Ryan Fugger and quite formally defined by Sylvain Poirier, Ripple is a P2P monetary system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks. By cutting out the institutional middlemen, Ripple is both more community-oriented and more efficient as a means ... read more

Ryan Fugger - June 27, 2005
 

Three years after the collapse of Argentina's economy under IMF and World Bank recipes for development, the South American country's budding recovery is stunning international observers. Photo credit: Argentinian mate - Eduardo Cesario Defying the IMF's prescriptions, president Kirchner and his economic advisers have told creditors to ... read more

Robin Good - Health Supreme - January 1, 2005
 

 

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