The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Robert D. Atkinson and Stephen J. Ezell Pragmatism, Not Ideology, Key to Remaining in Pole Position in the Innovation Race, November 4, 2012 Serge J. Van Steenkiste Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell systematically challenge the ideological tenets of the dysfunctional Washington Economic Consensus that the U.S. economic elites cherish (pp. 54-56; 73-74; 78-80; 82-84; 93; …
I have had a blast developing an Open Source Everything Hub proposal for a major university outside the USA. The article that presents the proposal to the academic and policy worlds is under development and will be ready by 15 September. It’s working title is Open Source Everything, Big Data & True Cost Economics: Designing …
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An assessment of the FLOK process and why the P2P Foundation will not use the FLOK brand in the future (note: this version was originally written at the request of Jay Wallsjasper of On the Commons, slightly expanded and updated on July 13; it’s a little more elaborate than the first informal assessment shared here …
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CSEP Survey of Economic Students: results suggest need for curriculum reform Students at Cambridge University have released a critical report on the state of the economics curriculum at Cambridge. The report presents the findings from a survey of 235 students and alumni. The results suggest that respondents are broadly unsatisfied with their courses and want more real‐world applicability, greater …
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Building the Virtues Control Panel J. Hughes Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, 28 July 2014
No Search Or Publishing For Science The scientific method is used to approach a problem logically and come to reasonable conclusion based off the presented evidence. Allow me to present the following question: if only a small percentage of scientists publish their work, does that not distort scientific information? Let us approach this problem in …
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It seems we are in basic agreement on the problems that society faces. You rightly emphasize the coercive nature of income inequality. And, IMHO, you rightly emphasize the role that open-source, open-data, open-design, widening-commons, etc. must play in a better, functional society. Please allow me to explain the strategy behind my project. In a nutshell, …
