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economy Archive
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The curse of the innovation age
Posted on July 21, 2010 | View Comments“The global economy’s problem isn’t best seen as a lack of demand. But as an oversupply of toxic, industrial age junk.” . This remark, by Umair Haque, is intriguing because usually, the uninterrupted supply of industrial junk is seen as the very motor of economic... -
Earning social capital
Posted on December 26, 2009 | View CommentsBarter points, cacoa beans, gold, sheep. There have been many units used as currency in trade. Now a new, or renowed one, is brought under attention again: The whuffie. A currency based on reputation. First used in a fiction novel in 2003, in 2009 introduced... -
Interesting book: Life, Inc.
Posted on June 21, 2009 | View CommentsJust came across the new book “Life, Inc.” by Douglas Rushkoff. I haven’t read it but is about how we (or at least the American society he writes about) have become disconnected from the real value of life and creating and trading things and have...