Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Anderson talks to Stephen Colbert about the rise of “freeconomics,” the reputation economy, and the gift economy.
More on youtube:
And an article:
Enabled by the miracle of abundance, digital economics has turned traditional economics upside down. Read your college textbook and it’s likely to define economics as “the social science of choice [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economic Debates, Property, Public Policy on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Patents may not bolster innovation, as commonly thought:
A new study challenges the traditional view that patents foster innovation, suggesting instead that they may hinder technological progress, economic activity and societal wealth. These results could have important policy implications, because many countries count on patent systems to spur new technology and promote economic growth.
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PatentSim features an abstract [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, Economic Crisis, financial crisis, Keynes, Marxian on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Perelman, who blogs at EconoSpeak, has posted an essay (pdf) called “An Idiosyncratic Road to Crisis Theory” (actually, he posted it last sunday, and I’ve been too lazy to blog about it). He manages to cover a lot of ground in ten pages, particularl with regards to capital theory. His introduction may be the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, Development, Economic Debates, Poverty on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hint: it might not be the “poverty trap”…
Jeffrey Sachs has a new article about…the same thing he always talks about:
The G-8’s $20bn initiative on smallholder agriculture, launched at the group’s recent summit in L’Aquila, Italy, is a potentially historic breakthrough in the fight against hunger and extreme poverty. With serious management of the new funds, [...]
