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Political change might come from the tip of a spear, a nonviolent one. The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From JPMorgan to BlackRock by Scott Aquanno and Stephen Maher Verso 2024 Why Civil Resistance Works, The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent...
by annieli
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Memenomics, by Said Dawlabani, is an enormously frustrating book, full of brash promises that it cannot fulfill. Nevertheless it offers much useful information, and a new way to think about society, politics, economics, and some of the larger problems...
by Mokurai
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In slightly weird news, Women Who Code is shutting down! I know, tech is having problems everywhere, and especially websites are having to figure out funding streams. But WWC is far from just a website, and it seems like they still have plenty of...
by elenacarlena
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Vladimir Putin’s disastrous Ukraine adventure has united Moscow’s foes, stunted Russia’s economy, and frayed Beijing’s ties with the Kremlin, a senior Communist-aligned academic said. Feng Yujun is Director of the Center for Russian and Central Asian...
by Wilson Dizard III
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I don’t have to explain Andrew Sayer’s title, above, in any detail here. The ultra-rich lie, cheat, steal, and get laws written to protect their interest at any and all costs. They prate ...
by Mokurai
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Amid Dismal Science’s (economics’) myriad failures, the facilitation of the misguided “economy vs environment” framing, wrong-headed thinking about how to act on climate, overstating costs and understating benefits of climate action, and utter failure...
by A Siegel
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There's no such thing as a self-made rich person. Rich people may work hard (some of them work incredibly hard, others hardly work at all), but their work wouldn't be nearly as profitable - or might be entirely impossible - without the systems and...
by Barry Deutsch
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by angryea
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In this series, I have already documented multiple ways that Biden saved the US economy as president. It’s been a Herculean job. But�did you know that this wasn’t his first time pulling off this ...
by GoodNewsRoundup
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from my notes on Gandhi's Economic Thought by Ajit K. Dasgupta NY: Routledge, 1996 ISBN 0-415-11430-6 http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/gandhis-economic-thought.html [All notes from my readings in Gandhian or nonviolent economics can be...
by gmoke
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