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The Class of the New - Home

robdyke — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:07:00 -0500

In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection of quotations from authors who in different ways attempt to identify an innovative element within society: ‘the class of the new’. Announcing a new economic and social paradigm, this class constitutes a ‘social prophecy’ of the shape of work to come. From Adam Smith's ‘Philosophers’ of the late 18th century, down to the ‘Creative Class’ celebrated by sociologist Richard Florida today, the class of the new represents the future of production within and beyond capitalism. Tagged by robdyke under class of the new, property, production, book, beyond capitalism,

Post-Autistic Economics Network and Post-Autistic Economics Review

robdyke — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:41:00 -0500

post-autistic economics network heterodox economics sanity, humanity and science pluralism in economics Tagged by robdyke under economics, journal, sanity humanity and science,

Dean Baker, "The Reform of Intellectual Property", Post-Autistic Economics Review, issue 32

robdyke — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:40:00 -0500

Forum on Economic Reform In recent decades the alliance of neoclassical economics and neoliberalism has hijacked the term “economic reform”. By presenting political choices as market necessities, they have subverted public debate about what economic policy changes are possible and are or are not desirable. This venue promotes discussion of economic reform that is not limited to the one ideological point of view. Tagged by robdyke under economics, journal article, economic reform,

Shirky: Bio

robdyke — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:11:00 -0400

Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC. Tagged by robdyke under person, peer to peer, network society, social economics,

Social Lending: the big idea

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:49:00 -0400

Social Lending is a smarter, fairer and more human way of doing money. It's like borrowing and lending with your friends and family - except there are thousands of people you can lend and borrow with. Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, social economics, banking, service provider,

JAK Medlemsbank

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:48:00 -0400

THE INTEREST-FREE SAVINGS AND LOAN SYSTEM JAK has been operating an interest-free savings and loan system since 1970. A bank license was obtained in 1997. Formally JAK is a co-operative bank. We have 33,000 members and our growth is 7 percent per year. Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, social economics, banking, sweeden,

The Bankwatch

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:47:00 -0400

Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, blog, social economics,

Peer-to-peer lending | Crunchless credit | Economist.com

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:47:00 -0400

IF THE banks won't lend you money, might a stranger? Probably not, to judge by recent data from Prosper, an American peer-to-peer lending marketplace (a place where people can lend their own money to other people). Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, social economics, peer to peer, article,

isb | Institute for Social Banking | Training and Research | Home

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:46:00 -0400

The Institute for Social Banking develops different, individually coordinated university courses in the field of ethical-ecological, socially motivated finance and banking. Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, wikinomics, social economics,

New Left Review - John E. Roemer: An Anti-Hayekian Manifesto

robdyke — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:52:00 -0400

Whither Socialism? poses as an attack on the possibility of market socialism. [*] But that pose is superficial. The central object of Stiglitz’s attack is the conventional general equilibrium model of twentieth-century economic theory Tagged by robdyke under economics, political economy, stiglitz,

Rethinking Economies

robdyke — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:46:00 -0400

Chinese cockle pickers in Lancashire; energy price hikes in Europe after a quarrel between former Soviet states; markets in new reproductive technologies: these events make the news, but cause consternation and perplexity. Are these one-off incidents? Or, are they the tip of radical economic shifts profoundly affecting both our lives and world society? If so, how can we explain these underlying trends? Tagged by robdyke under conference, economics, anthropology, development,

The Memory Bank 3.0

robdyke — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:11:00 -0400

He contributed the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has published widely on economic anthropology, especially about money. One reflexive theme of his work is the relationship between movement and identity in the transition from national to world society. Tagged by robdyke under homepage, anthropologist, informal economy, money,

BABYLON AND BEYOND: Anti-capitalist economics: Capitalism, by its very nature, is a permanent state of war

robdyke — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:51:00 -0400

BABYLON AND BEYOND: Anti-capitalist economics Tagged by robdyke under new radical political economy, new social movments, political economy, babylon and beyond, book, blog,

Green Economics: home page.

robdyke — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:48:00 -0400

The Green Economics Institute has therefore been formed to bring together thinkers, activists, practioners, academics and policy makers, people in business wanting to work for a real change in outcomes, economists and campaigners, writers and opinion formers in order to educate and exchange information and ideas and to provide the tools for beneficial change to occur. Tagged by robdyke under green economics, new radical political economy,

Welcome To ZNet

robdyke — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:31:00 -0400

Participatory Economics (Parecon for short) is a type of economy proposed as an alternative to contemporary capitalism. The underlying values are equity, solidarity, diversity, and participatory self management. The main institutions are workers and consumers councils utilizing self managed decision making, balanced job complexes, remuneration according to effort and sacrifice, and participatory planning. Tagged by robdyke under parecon, participatation, self-management, new politics,

Propaganda model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

robdyke — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:28:00 -0400

The propaganda model is a theory advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Tagged by robdyke under propaganda, rhetoric, media,

Economic Manuscripts: Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

robdyke — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:31:00 -0500

Source: K. Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, with some notes by R. Rojas. Tagged by robdyke under karl marx, book,

TIME.com: Osmosis in Queuetopia -- Feb. 6, 1950 -- Page 8

robdyke — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:22:00 -0500

The Tory campaign manifesto tried to sound as Laborite as possible and the Labor manifesto tried to sound as Tory as possible. This political osmosis, familiar in U.S. politics, is relatively new to Britain. Unless the Tories can break out of the "me-too" pattern and wake the voters to a sense of Britain's economic and political perils, it is hard to see how the Tories can win. Tagged by robdyke under consensus politics, 1950, british government,

Introduction to ESDS

robdyke — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:55:00 -0500

The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities. Tagged by robdyke under data sets, migration, social, economic,

The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software

robdyke — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:00:00 -0400

Tagged by robdyke under business, floss, economics, politics, ideas, TOREAD,