The ‘Democratization Of Energy’ Will Change Everything
“The Third Industrial Revolution will move apace over the next several decades, probably peaking around 2050, and plateau in the second half of the 21st century. Already, in the shadow of its ascending...
View ArticleOrganizing for Human Flourishing / World House
“Some people are good at some types of work, but not good at others. A society organized according to industrial-era principles, and an economy that does not take our human differences into account,...
View ArticleThe Problem of Growth
“Stuart Staniford proposed a “way forward” for humanity in his article Powering Civilization to 2050. This article proposes an alternative vision: instead of trying to create continual, technological...
View ArticleForget New York City, This City is Where All the Artists Are Moving To
Lisbon, Portugal: The city investing in art in the middle of a financial crisis. . . . This creative renaissance, it turns out, is not spontaneous, but rather the product of opportunistic public...
View ArticleCentral Planning and The Fall of the US Empire
“The only way to manage an economy as complex as this is to allow massively parallel decision making. A huge number of economically empowered people making small decisions, that in aggregate, are able...
View ArticleTime to make the marketplace for privacy, trust, identity and information...
“A growing attention economy is transforming the news business. It represents for the institutions which practice journalism a chance to survive beyond the era of mass-market advertising, by becoming...
View ArticleThe Dropout Economy – TIME
Snippets: “Many economists attribute the sluggish wage growth in the U.S. to educational stagnation, which is one reason politicians of every stripe call for doubling or tripling the number of college...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Downturn: A Crisis of Political Economy
“The current economic crisis is best understood as a crisis of political economy. Moreover, it has to be understood as a global crisis enveloping the United States, Europe and China that has different...
View ArticleRevealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
As anti-capitalist protesters take to the streets, mathematics has teased apart the global economic network to show who’s really pulling the strings… See on www.newscientist.com
View ArticleStories shape behavior in our Neuroeconomy
Neuroeconomics is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to explain human decision making, the ability to process multiple alternatives and to follow a course of action. It studies how economic behavior...
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