Many criticize the Occupy Movement as having muddled goals and nebulous ideas, and that it therefore will be unable to change anything. But this viewpoint misses the entire point. The Occupy Movement recognizes a fundamental problem: that it is generous to call our political system a democracy, when so few have so much more influence [...]
Archive for November, 2011
The entire political discourse is already too small
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, Culture, inequality on November 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Piñata of Benevolence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged inequality, quotations on November 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“We have this fantasy that our interests and the interests of the super rich are the same. Like somehow the rich will eventually get so full that they’ll explode. And the candy will rain down on the rest of us. Like there’s some kind of piñata of benevolence. But here’s the thing about a pinata: [...]
Every woman in Africa would be a millionaire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Culture, Development on November 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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A Guide to Political Donations
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Whatever the amounts and the goals of your political donations, here are the options for achieving them [ht:cr]
Bank Transfer Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economic Crisis, financial crisis on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Occupy Wall Street movement has spurred forward various other movements that attempt to imagine a new, people-based economy. One such initiative was Bank Transfer Day [ht:cr]: Bank Transfer Day began out of the Occupy Wall Street movement as thousands of Americans took to rallying in Lower Manhattan against, among other things, the bailout of [...]
Worldly Philosophers Wanted
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economic Crisis, history and philosophy of economics on November 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Rodger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman take an interesting look at how the teaching and research of the economics profession has changed [ht:av]: IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking [...]
