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Archive for April 30th, 2009
Housekeeping Note re: Comments
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Guilty Purchases
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Culture on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The rich are thinking twice – and feeling a little guilty – about those luxury purchases: More than half of affluent consumers say they feel “guilty” making luxury purchases in this economy, a survey of the most-moneyed Americans finds. Fewer this year also say they like to be labeled as “wealthy.” [...] Of course, far [...]
Richard Wolff On Obama’s Economic Plan
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, Economic Crisis on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Starts at 2:15.
Alternatives to the Firm
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is easy to critique capitalism. Probably too easy. Offering alternatives can be more difficult, but when they offered, they are immediately dismissed by many. Over the past few days, I have heard many times that the alternatives offered could never work, or they are unsustainable, or they could only work if everyone cared about [...]
Socialocentrism
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Ok, this was a poor title for a blog post, I admit. The main topic of the professor dinner talk I mention below was “Capitalocentrism,” a term coined by the economic geographer(s) J.K. Gibson-Graham. Capitalocentrism means that we understand everything to be capitalism, even if it’s non-capitalist, and this obviously distorts any attempts at envisioning [...]
