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According to Thomas Friedman, we need a green revolution. And we will get one, by necessity and the need for local resilience in the face of the global wave of multiple defaults. Another green revolution is underway – a green (money) revolution, but perhaps not as we planned or designed. Allow me to post the . . . → Read More: The world is flat (lined) Happy End of 2008! As we pounded the year into oblivion, many of my favorite blogs flogged the predictions for 2009. Normally, next-year predictions are a yawning so-what. Given the palpable trepidation in the cultural climate though, more attention than usual has been brought to bear. See, for example, the collection at Depression2.TV (as in, . . . → Read More: Goodbye to the Value Subtracting “Finance Economy” Bob Jacobson (Total Experience blog) recently posted about the Madoff scandal, and I quote:
“In every culture, the battle of the classes is so intense it overwhelms ethical considerations. Every apparent ally is lauded by those who constitute the culture’s moneyed class — and when the fraud betrays the . . . → Read More: A Note on New Year’s Socionomics One of my doctoral committee members, Alex Pattakos, blogs for HuffingtonPost and wrote Meaningful Capitalism: Change We Can Believe In. In response to the article and some of the comments, I said: Organizations pursuing meaningful entrepreneurship are not in strong evidence by the media. We ourselves should become the new news media that changes the . . . → Read More: The Collapse of American Capitalism, What’s Next? From Bernard-Henri Levy, in Huffington Post: In just fifty days you will be, in theory, the most powerful man in the world. I say “in theory” because your first challenge will in fact be your country’s decline in power. It’s been so long that we have been hearing about this decline – and now it . . . → Read More: Open Letter to the Next US President |
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