The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The 5 Most Important Geopolitical Highlights of SPIEF-2015 India, Eurasian Economic Union, free trade zone TWO pipelines from Baltic to Balkans 19 nuclear plans for Saudi Arabia — and weapons? Arab NATO emerges, looks to Russia for arms & intelligence Myanmar (Burma) a future Russian linch-pin?
Blockchain Can Bring Transparency to Supply Chains The open source, decentralised database blockchain allows consumers to check the authenticity and ethical standards of their products, says Dr. Jutta Steiner. The key to transparency is the decentralisation of data, meaning no single party can control what is seen.
Can accountants save the planet? An international movement has begun in the finance world, and a few innovative global companies are starting to look at how nature and society can be included in their bottom line. Accounting historian Jane Gleeson-White on the revolution starting to take place in boardroom, and how it could transform the …
The hard problem: Tom Stoppard on the limits of what science can explain Can evolution explain acts of kindness, and morality? We arranged a debate between a sceptical Tom Stoppard and the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Stuart Jeffries acted as referee selfishness beats altruism within groups, but altruistic groups beat selfish ones
Tip of the Hat to Svend Aage Christensen Learning from Karl Polanyi EXTRACT So what is the explanation for this disjuncture between theory and empirical results? Krugman’s answer is “that workers are not, in fact, commodities.” Unlike soybeans or other commodities, employees know and care about their price, and when they are paid better, they …
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Part of our social stability, I think, depends on the ignorance most people share about the true measure of economic inequality in the U.S. A definition of the one per cent: “they have median annual household income of $750,000, median assets of $7.5 million, and there are 1.2 million of them across the country.” That’s …
I am beginning to detect a growing trend towards changing the capitalist economic model from one in which profit is the only priority to one in which wellness is the priority, and profit must be made within that paradigm. SPIEGEL Interview with Naomi Klein: ‘The Economic System We Have Created Global Warming’ Phi Beta Iota: …
