Webinar on the work of David Fleming
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Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy
Thursday May 4th 2-4 pm
Facilitated by Shaun...
Reclaiming Commons through Land Value Tax, or a Wing and a Prayer
There are estimates which present the power of a litre of petrol as equivalent to two to three weeks of manual labour. On one...
CapGlobalCarbon and basic income: How could climate action be coupled to economic empowerment?
Note: this article assumes that you are already up-to-speed on what CapGlobalCarbon is. See here to get a quick overview, or here for a...
Specialisation and trade – David Ricardo versus Frederich List
What Schumpeter called the “Ricardian Vice” was a mode of reasoning in which the required conclusions are buried in the assumptions of an argument....
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Entrepreneurship in the social and solidarity economy
Co-operatives have been described as freshwater fish in a saltwater environment. In the 1930s, the co-operative sector in many countries was very powerful but...
The Music of Narcissus
by Patrick Noble
A fiddle and a cello weave in counterpoint. The fiddle sings of a redemptive future, while the cello evokes a scenic past....
Journey to Earthland: review by Mark Garavan
Journey to Earthland by Paul Raskin is an unusual work. It is not primarily an analysis of our present predicament or of our likely...
Entrepreneurship – the narrative of creative destruction
In the religion of economics, the entrepreneur is a hero engaged in a narrative of destructive creation. Entrepreneurs are tragically noble figures on a...
End of the “Oilocene”: The Demise of the Global Oil Industry and of...
(A pdf version of this paper is here. Please refer to my presentation for supporting images and comments. )
In 1981 I was sitting on...
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