Howard Rheingold The Internet might be more than a new kind of marketplace and a new medium for exchanging money as we know it. If Bernard Lietaer and others are […]
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Downsizing, another word for out of work!
by Compassion Most individuals entangled in the horror of corporate downsizing and restructuring respond with moral outrage. There is a general consensus among the victims and potential victims that mechanisms […]
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Genevieve Vaughan Nature offers her abundance free to satisfy the needs that nature and culture have created. Humans have altered this process by depleting the abundance, cornering what remains, and […]
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Henry Kissinger “Today American’s would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there […]
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huang chin lung Where there is no respect, there is no love; where there is no mercy, no pity, no forgiveness, there is no love. And as most of us […]
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Gifford Pinchot The first step toward a sustainable sense of success is taking pride in the value of our contributions to others rather than taking pride in the value of […]
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J. Carrico In contemporary society, we are accustomed to islands of abundance within deserts of scarcity, islands which must be defended against a constant pressure. Western ideas about economics are […]
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From First Monday. Note: The article is now located in their Archives. Hillary Bays and Miranda Mowbray This paper arose from a question: why are there so many connections between […]
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Richard Barbrook During the Sixties, the New Left created a new form of radical politics: anarcho-communism. Above all, the Situationists and similar groups believed that the tribal gift economy proved […]
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Daniel Quinn A reader who is not online phoned me last night to get my take on the WTC attack. As with others who have contacted me, he wanted to […]
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