Lowering these risks and adapting to those we can no longer avoid will require a mobilisation of resources on the scale of a war economy.
We did it for the Second World War. We can do it again.
Παρεμπιπτόντως αυτή η τακτική οδηγούσε και σε πίεση για άλλα μέτρα που συνέβαλαν στη ύπαρξη υπερπλεονασμάτων. Άλλο αυτό είναι μια άλλη ιστορία.
Ομολογια Τσακαλώτου οτι συμπίεσαν εκτος ελεγχου τη Μεσαία Τάξη λόγω του μαρκαρισματος απο ΔΝΤ.
In fact, says Resnick, the years ahead may produce a new form of communism - a system based on ownership of private property, stock markets and political freedom, but allowing workers to decide how the profits of their work are allocated.
A.Resnick's idea about true communism as "people getting the profits":
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Το έλλειµµα του εµπορικού ισοζυγίου από 745 εκατ. δολάρια προβλέπεται ότι θα φτάσει τελικά το τέλος του 1973 τα 2.600 εκατ. δολάρια, δηλαδή περίπου θα τετραπλασιασθεί»…
Εμπορικό έλλειμα: x3
Ήταν τόσο «τίμιοι» και αντικομφορμιστές όσο και οι τρεις βίλες του Παπαδόπουλου: Μια στο Ψυχικό, μία την Πάρνηθα και μια Τρίτη το Λαγονήσι (η τελευταία ήταν προσφορά του Ωνάση). Ήταν τόσο «πατριώτες» που – εκτός του μέγιστου εγκλήματος κατά της Κύπρου – το βοούν και οι ληστρικές συμβάσεις με «Litton», «Μακντόναλντ», «Τομ Πάππας» και «Ζήμενς» – πάντα η… «Ζήμενς». Ήταν τόσο θεομπαίχτες που έφτασαν να βουτάνε λεφτά ακόμα και από το… παγκάρι! Γνωστή η ιστορία με την ανέγερση του «θαυματουργού» (καθότι… αόρατος) Ναού του Σωτήρως. Μόνο από εκεί, από έναν προϋπολογισμό ύψους 450 εκατομμυρίων, φαγώθηκαν τα 400…
Μεγα-σκανδαλα της Χούντας (περα των σαπιων κρεάτων).
Τα φορολογικά έσοδα από τις ναυτιλιακές εταιρείες μειώθηκαν από 109 εκατομμύρια δραχμές το 1968 σε 29 εκατομμύρια το 1972 (μείωση 73%!), περίοδος κατά την οποία ο ελληνικός στόλος αυξήθηκε κατά 16,7 εκατομμύρια τόνους.
Εξωφρενικές Φοροαπαλαγες σε Εφοπλιστες.
Σε έξι χρόνια οι χουντικοί έκαναν το χρέος 1,5 φορά µεγαλύτερο απ’ όσο είχε αυξηθεί σε διάστηµα 145 χρόνων!
Χρέος: ~x3
Μέσα σε αυτά τα «ιερά» σχέδια συντελέστηκε το θαύμα: είχαν εξαφανιστεί 406 εκατ. δρχ., φυσικά πέρασαν στις τσέπες των επιτήδειων, αρεστών και «ημετέρων» του καθεστώτος – στην υγεία των «κορόιδων».
406εκ σκανδαλο με δωρεές πιστών και πολιτών φαγανε τα λαμόγια της Χούντας.
Not feasible due to high cost, setup time, not variable enough, producing more waste power kWh. Unproven technology eliminating the prospect for cost reductions due to scaling manufacturing (chicken-egg}.
Ακόμα, σημειώνουν το παράδοξο της αύξησης του ΑΕΠ κατά 2,7% το δ΄τρίμηνο του 2020, όταν στο μεγαλύτερο διάστημά του υπήρχε lockdown, συγκριτικά με το γ' τρίμηνο του ίδιου έτους, που αφενός δεν ίσχυαν περιοριστικά μέτρα και αφετέρου στη διάρκειά του καταγράφηκαν τα όποια έσοδα από τον τουρισμό.
Η απάτη της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ εγινε το Οκτ-Δεκ 2020, οταν ξεκινησε δηλαδή το 2ο και μακρύτερο lockdown, και πραγματικά βγαζει μάτι.
Η αναζωογόνηση της ελληνικής ναυπηγικής βιομηχανίας βρίσκεται στο στόχαστρο αμερικανικών εταιρειών με την υποστήριξη της Αμερικανικής Αναπτυξιακής Τράπεζας, η Tesla έχει βάλει την Ελλάδα στους επενδυτικούς της προορισμούς, η Pfizer λειτουργεί hub στη Θεσσαλονίκη, η Microsoft θα ανοίξει data center στη χώρα μας, ενώ προετοιμάζεται να ακολουθήσει η Amazon Web
Τι φυλάω για να δούμε τι από όλα αυτά θα υλοποιηθεί.
Saner, E. (2021, October 26). The psychology of masks: Why have so many people stopped covering their faces? The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/26/the-great-cover-up-why-the-uk-stopped-wearing-face-masks
Vaccine inequality will cost money as well as lives. (2021, August 30). The Economist. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/30/vaccine-inequality-will-cost-money-as-well-as-lives
There will be three billion gamers by next year, according to a Newzoo study. And as Loftus puts it: “People are going to need to wear something.”
THIS is it - web 3 is making consumers mutiplicitous - opens marketts WITHIN games, subworlds that can be exploited / marketed to / fashion trends will sweep games, online subcultures (maybe) - people have markeable personas on and off the web, new context for targeted advertising / commerce.
Will cannabalize physical economies?
Accessorize for a zoom meeting - digital suits, etc digital costumes. Something to wear at digital concerts, in games; your Perona will not be birthed into the metaverse clothed, accessorized...
Assets will be portable across platforms.
When price is fixed, the market competes only on quality. The highest-quality providers can choose their clients, and may have waiting lists; the lowest-quality providers have to hustle hard not to fall out of the profession.
Enter the client who doesn't want to wait for the best person; the wealthy person can shop around, or might offer a premium to skip a month-long waitlist? Price adjustment happens on both the demand & supply sides?
The people are the judges of the laws and of plays; but they can never be the makers of them.
Everybody wants all this accountability & responsibility, but nobody has the time / expertise; if division of labor specialization works in economic matters (broadly), does it also not work in matters of social organization & political economy?
“A startup is an organization that scales. A creator is an individual that scales,”
.creator economy
Samir predicts that the next phase of the creator economy will focus on developing deep relationships with audiences.
.creator economy
Ο Ραντ σημειώνει επίσης στη πρώτη σελίδα ότι αφήνει κατά μέρος σε αυτό το έγγραφο «τη βαθύτερη ανησυχία ότι ο πρωταρχικός ρόλος των κυρίαρχων οικονομικών στην κοινωνία μας είναι να παρέχουν δικαιολογίες για μια εγκληματικά καταπιεστική, μη βιώσιμη και άδικη κοινωνική τάξη».
Ταξική θεωρία πλέον μέσα και από την Fed (o Jeremy Rudd ειναι ανωτερος υπάλληλός της)!
: «Ένα από τα κύρια αποτελέσματα (δεν θα πω τους σκοπούς) της ορθόδοξης παραδοσιακής οικονομικής ήταν… ένα σχέδιο για να εξηγήσουν στην προνομιούχα τάξη ότι η θέση της ήταν ηθικά σωστή και απαραίτητη για την ευημερία της κοινωνίας».
Economists have been mostly brainwashed to believe that it is the wealthy that produce our planet's wealth.
πό τα 24 άτομα από τα οποία εσείς πήρατε συνέντευξη στο νέο σας βιβλίο, Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists.
Συνεντευξεις οικονομολογων που αμφισβητούν το καπιταλιστικό καθεστώτος.
NFTs are compatible with anything built using Ethereum. An NFT ticket for an event can be traded on every Ethereum marketplace, for an entirely different NFT. You could trade a piece of art for a ticket!
There - opens up GIGANTIC barter economy possibilities - will shut out old middle men & create new ones - swap airline tickets / hotel reservations for concert tickets or memorabilia
A very prescient article by Annie Murphy Paul from 2011. It doesn't review Davidson's book, so much as to take to task some of the underlying optimistic views of the magic of technology. If only we were able to better adapt and evolve to create the sort of changes in humanity to take advantage of the potential benefits that were assumed. Instead, much of the tech sector adapted instead to hijack our slowly evolving attention to benefit themselves.
I wish we as a culture had had more of this sober sort of outlook about technology at the time.
I'm now even more intrigued by Paul's new book: The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, which is already in my reading queue.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Annie Murphy Paul </span> in "@ChrisAldrich @amandalicastro @CathyNDavidson Chris, you may be interested in this review of "Now You See It" that I wrote . . . https://t.co/TnnbQ3NHWf" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>10/17/2021 10:25:52</time>)</cite></small>
The digital age has brought all of us new and exciting tools that will surely continue to alter the way we learn and work. But focusing one’s attention, gathering and synthesizing evidence, and constructing a coherent argument are skills as necessary as they were before—in fact, more necessary than ever, given the swamp of baseless assertion and outright falsehood that is much of the Web. Some day not too far in the future, the digital natives may find themselves turning down the music, shutting off the flickering screen, silencing the buzzing phone and sitting down to do just one thing at a time.
Very prescient for 2011!
time as the new currency
Women tend to be excluded from the national economy because their work is not paid and therefore not value or factored into the Gross Domestic Product of a nation. Money, then, is a mechanism for disempowerment.
Dissuasion Engine (DE) attacks the wicked problem of excessive mass online consumption, and the social and environmental costs it produces for future humans, species and the earth itself.
According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, smartphones are making us dopamine junkies. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
Resonance with the topic for the next World Weavers group conversation on Saturday, October 23: Shifting from an attention economy to an intention economy.
On Saturday, October 9, after our World Weavers conversation on the topic Matter is Derivative of Consciousness, I was exploring Value Village, a thrift store in Chilliwack, with my wife, Jayne. I came across a book that fits with the theme for our World Weavers conversation on October 23: Shifting from an attention economy to an intention economy.
By Charles Eisenstein
Sacred money, then, will be a medium of giving, a means to imbue the global economy with the spirit of the gift that governed tribal and village cultures, and still does today wherever people do things for each other outside the money economy.
Sacred Economics describes this future and also maps out a practical way to get there. Long ago I grew tired of reading books that criticized some aspect of our society without offering a positive alternative. Then I grew tired of books that offered a positive alternative that seemed impossible to reach: “We must reduce carbon emissions by 90 percent.” Then I grew tired of books that offered a plausible means of reaching it but did not describe what I personally, could do to create it. Sacred Economics operates on all four levels: it offers a fundamental analysis of what has gone wrong with money; it describes a more beautiful world based on a different kind of money and economy; it explains the collective actions necessary to create that world and the means by which these actions come about; and it explores the personal dimensions of the world-transformation, the change in identity and being that I call “living in the gift.”
(Page XIX)
Delta Hospitalizes More U.S. Kids, Cuts Job Growth: Virus Update. (2021, September 2). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-02/fauci-floats-three-doses-u-s-hospitals-strained-virus-update
Serra-Garcia, M., & Gneezy, U. (2021). Nonreplicable publications are cited more than replicable ones. Science Advances, 7(21), eabd1705. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd1705
neoliberalism and social conservatism have frequently coexisted in practice. Yet the alt-right fits none of the previously identified alliances
Indeed, alt-right is a radical movement (hence the danger if we let it uncontested).
Υπάρχει δηλαδή η παραδοχή ότι µια χώρα δεν µπορεί να στηρίζεται στο κίνητρο του κέρδους για να υφίσταται και να λειτουργεί. Γιατί εχθρός του κέρδους είναι το µεγαλύτερο κέρδος. Συνεπώς αν η βλάβη της χώρας εξασφαλίσει περισσότερο κέρδος για όποιον κερδίζει προστατεύοντάς την, τότε η χώρα θα υποστεί βλάβη για να κερδίσει ο κερδοσκόπος. Ξεκάθαρα πράγµατα και νόµοι της αγοράς.
Γιατι οι neoliberal του Rothbard εχουν παιδική αντιληψη για το πως λειτουργεί η αγορα σε εναν κοσμο που ακομα υπαρχουνμη-νομισματικά συμφέροντα.
Elon Musk has built not one but two world-changing companies (Tesla and SpaceX.) He clearly deserves to be wealthy. As does Jeff Bezos, who quickly regained his title as the world’s wealthiest person. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, and many other billionaires changed our world and have been paid handsomely for it.
Surprising for an egalitarian economic text to admit that, on conditions, the rich are entitled to their wealth.
Until we recognize the systemic role that supermoney plays in our economy, we will never make much of a dent in inequality. Simply raising taxes is a bit like sending out firefighters with hoses spraying water while another team is spraying gasoline.
Taxation needs a total revamp because it's inefficient, slow and the rich adapt by becoming a moving target.
The tax system could and should become more dynamic rather than more predictable.
Exactly: decide the tax for each citizen at the end of the year, by a division of the required amount.
When the markets are buoyant, Fed officials claim that central bankers should never second-guess markets by declaring that there are financial bubbles that might need to be deflated. Markets on their own, they assure, will correct whatever excesses may develop.But when bubbles burst or markets spiral downward, the Fed suddenly comes around to the idea that markets aren’t so rational and self-correcting and that it is the Fed’s job to second-guess them by lending copiously when nobody else will.In essence, the Fed has adopted a strategy that works like a one-way ratchet, providing a floor for stock and bond prices but never a ceiling.
There is a systemic reason for inequality, and the rich people are controlling the knobs and dials of it: [[too-big-to-fail]] coupled with [[quantitative easing]]
Lemay, E., Kruglanski, A. W., Molinario, E., Agostini, M., Belanger, J., Gutzkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., vanDellen, M. R., team, P., & Leander, P. (2021). The Role of Values in Coping with Health and Economic Threats of COVID-19 [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6j38h
It will be argued here that the new configuration of three possible degrees of freedom—markets, governance, and knowledge production—can be modeled in terms of a triple helix of university-industry-government relations (Etzkowitz & Leydesdorff, 1997; Leydesdorff & Etzkowitz, 1998). Governance can be considered as the variable that instantiates and organizes systems in the geographical dimension of the model, while industry is the main carrier of economic production and exchange. Thirdly, academe can play a leading role in the organization of the knowledge production function (Godin & Gingras, 2000).
university, government, and industry.
Basic research leading to scientific discovery is thus a public good. It will benefit all. But, because the private incentive to pay for basic research is therefore attenuated, the private sector as a matter of economic self-interest is likely to underinvest in it. Therefore, if the full social potential of this public good is to be realized, the investment must come from government.
Sounds argument against neoliberal views for privitized R&D.
investments in basic research are variously estimated as ultimately returning between 20% and 60% per year (13).
Science delivers x20 the typicall ROI!
Their finding was that at most half of the historical growth could be explained by known factors. The unexplained part, sometimes estimated as large as 85%, was termed the Solow residual
Definition of the "Solow residual".
ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @Arrianna_Planey: More people have died of COVID in 2021 than in 2020. How are we in “a better place”? Https://t.co/Rc0Swmr9az’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 9 August 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1424464272713666561
Is Covid Coming Back 2021? Delta Variant, New Global Hotspots Are Reality Check—Bloomberg. (n.d.). Retrieved July 28, 2021, from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-27/is-covid-coming-back-2021-delta-variant-new-global-hotspots-are-reality-check?srnd=premium-europe&sref=jjXJRDFv
The New Money Trust: How Large Money Managers Control Our Economy and What We Can Do About It
WTF is wrong?
Where is the moral character and backbone of the American people. We know something is wrong! It smells and stinks yet no one does anything. Most of our elected politicians are useless turds floating in wastewater and the rest are multiple term professional corrupt politicians waiting for the appropriate revolving door opportunity. This has nothing to do with party affiliation, it is rampant on both sides. Political parties perpetuate the illusion as a control mechanism. We see it yet do nothing about it! WHY?
This paper (topic) is typical of the continued "head in the sand" passive financial regulatory system loaded with Sheeple and kiss-ass do nothing idiots. Alarms have been going off since 2005/6 and as predicted then, our financial system imploded in 07/08.
Nothing has changed. Corruption and fraud fuel a dysfunctional financial system destined to cripple the American and Global economies. Economists and many within the financial sector know what is going on. Maybe they care about the average person but are afraid to come forward. Maybe they don't care and fully intend to rape and pillage as much of the global society as possible.
The question is what are YOU going to do to protect future generations, your children, grand children and so on?
Policy Opportunities for the Remote Economy | Upwork. (n.d.). Retrieved July 2, 2021, from https://www.upwork.com/press/releases/policy-opportunities-for-the-remote-economy
Chadi, M.-A., & Mousannif, H. (2021). Reinforcement Learning Based Decision Support Tool For Epidemic Control [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tcr8s
Briggs, A., & Vassall, A. (2021). Count the cost of disability caused by COVID-19. Nature, 593(7860), 502–505. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01392-2
expansive reputation system
But what about inequality, and the aggregation of tokens to few users? Reputation is the hardest currency, and the first to come, wins.
This means representing the interests of the electorate without destroying the existing political and socio-economic stability that Chileans have come to value.
It sounds as a covert funny fiddle with the economy, or you will lose your power "by the people":
Martin McKee: What did we learn from Dominic Cummings’ evidence to MPs on the covid crisis? - The BMJ. (n.d.). Retrieved May 29, 2021, from https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/05/26/martin-mckee-what-did-we-learn-from-dominic-cummings-evidence-to-mps-on-the-covid-crisis/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Bitcoin
Les causes de l’inflation
A nice economic POV on this is given by the Greek blogger TechieChan: https://www.techiechan.com/?p=3537
Maxmen, A. (2021). Will COVID force public health to confront America’s epic inequality?. Nature, 592(7856), 674-680.
Anderson-Carpenter, K. D., & Neal, Z. (2020). Racial disparities in COVID-19 impacts in Michigan, USA [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v2jda
Ali, A., Kamraju, M., & Wani, M. (2020). AN ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 LOCKDOWN 5.0 UNLOCK 1.0, INDIA. 04.
Liverpool, C. Q.-H. and L. (n.d.). Covid-19 death rates twice as high in England’s most deprived areas. New Scientist. Retrieved June 15, 2020, from https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-covid-19-death-rates-twice-as-high-in-englands-most-deprived-areas/
Gabriel, H. T. L., & Ho, C. M. C. (2020). Effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Social Behaviours: From a Social Dilemma Perspective. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/8duvx
Anderson, D., Hesketh, R., Kleinman, M., & Portes, J. (2020). Global City in a Global Pandemic: Assessing the Ongoing Impact of COVID Induced Trends on London’s Economic Sectors [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/7m286
Leeming, J. (2020). Careers and coronavirus: Sign up for expert advice straight to your inbox. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01837-0
The Data Visualizations Behind COVID-19 Skepticism. (n.d.). The Data Visualizations Behind COVID-19 Skepticism. Retrieved March 27, 2021, from http://vis.csail.mit.edu/covid-story/
Σε μια οικονομία που το χρήμα τυπώνεται και προσφέρεται στους ημετέρους, το κίνητρο του κέρδους είναι ανύπαρκτο· ενώ το πραγματικό κίνητρο (όπως πάντα) είναι ο έλεγχος. Το χρήμα είναι το μέσο με το οποίο επιτυγχάνεται αυτός ο έλεγχος.
Δεν υπάρχει (πλέον) ανταγωνισμός, γινόμαστε σοβιετία, απλώς με μεγαλύτερες ανισότητες και κατανεμημένο πολίτμπιρο.
Topol, E. J. (2021, March 18). It’s Okay to Overreact: Devi Sridhar Shares COVID’s Humbling Lesson. Medscape. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947382
Tulips as Cryptocoins?
Και όμως, θα αρκούσε μια πιο διεισδυτική ματιά στο «κίνημα των απαλλοτριώσεων» και των «περιφράξεων» της εποχής του, που μετέτρεπε την κοινόχρηστη γη σε ατομική ιδιοκτησία, για να αντιληφθεί ότι ο καταμερισμός εργασίας και η αγορά είναι αποτέλεσμα κοινωνικών και πολιτικών διεργασιών.
Δεν είχε καταλάβει ο Ανταμ Σμιθ πως ο πλούτος φέρνει πλούτο, δηλαδή.
Αντίθετα, αν εντάξουμε τον Πλούτο των Εθνών στο ευρύτερο πλαίσιο της Θεωρίαν των Ηθικών Συναισθημάτων, εύκολα θα αντιληφθούμε ότι ποτέ δεν αντιμετώπισε το κράτος ως αντίπαλο που πρέπει πάση θυσία να εξολοθρεύσει.
Κρύβεται ένα από βιβλίο πίσω από τον Πλούτο των Εθνών!
Ο κοινωνικός δαρβινισμός, όμως, δεν είναι φιλελευθερισμός. Μπορεί να στηριχθεί στον Μάντεβιλ (Mandeville) ή στον Σπένσερ (Spencer), όχι όμως στον Σμιθ.
Ποιοι είναι οι Spencer & Mandeville?
Σημειωτέον δε ότι η λεκτική αυτή παρομοίωση δεν είναι καν πατέντα του Σμιθ, αφού χρησιμοποιείται κατά κόρον ιδίως σε λογοτεχνικά κείμενα της εποχής του. Διατυπώθηκε, μάλιστα, η άποψη ότι η αναφορά του στο «αόρατο χέρι» γίνεται με καθαρά σκωπτική διάθεση.
το πρόβλημα που απασχολούσε τις κυρίαρχες τάξεις της εποχής του ήταν πώς θα διατηρήσουν τους μισθούς καθηλωμένους σε αρκούντως χαμηλά επίπεδα, ώστε να είναι υποχρεωμένοι οι μισθωτοί να εργάζονται.
GDP & main components pin EU countries.
Emails show Trump officials celebrate efforts to change CDC reports on coronavirus—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/09/cdc-covid-political-interference/
indifference to human drivers
Our week 8 module on Web 2.0 and the gig economy discussed this in more depth, and Barron alludes to this dynamic elsewhere in the article when describing both the typical user of an app like seamless and the typical profile of the gig economy worker who actually delivers their food - I appreciate the critiques of app design and user infantilization he is making here, but the article could have also discussed in more depth how these design choices help these companies to obfuscate and divert attention from the way they impact people besides the consumer. There is a whole class people whose primary interaction with these apps is on the back end- as struggling small business owners dependent on positive yelp reviews, delivery people, and rideshare drivers - maybe that is outside the purview of this article, but it would have been nice to see this angle explored a bit more.
What is the right historical analogy for all this? Allen Farrington argues that Bitcoin is to the system of fiat currencies centered around the dollar what medieval Venice once was to the remnants of the western Roman Empire, as superior an economic operating system as commercial capitalism was to feudalism. Another possibility is that the advent of blockchain-based finance is as revolutionary as that of fractional reserve banking, bond and stock markets in the great Anglo-Dutch financial revolution of the 18th century.
Historical context for bitcoin
Hale, Thomas. ‘What We Learned from Tracking Every COVID Policy in the World’. The Conversation. Accessed 26 March 2021. http://theconversation.com/what-we-learned-from-tracking-every-covid-policy-in-the-world-157721.
How Taiwan triumphed over Covid as the UK faltered. (2021, March 24). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/how-taiwan-triumphed-over-covid-as-uk-faltered
decarbonization also creates opportunities, and investors are keen to put capital to work on these areas. Many of them directly involve, or are adjacent to, chemicals production, including battery materials, green hydrogen, and materials that can enable energy efficiency.
Circular economies are good news for everyone
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Chart of the day: These countries normally have the highest international tourist numbers. (n.d.). World Economic Forum. Retrieved June 9, 2020, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/most-visited-countries-world-tourism-organization/
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Prof. Devi Sridhar. (2020, March 25). We will be stuck in an endless cycle of lockdown/release for next 18 months, if we do not start mass testing, tracing, & isolating those who are carriers of the virus while pursuing rapid research for antiviral treatment or vaccine. This is the message the public needs to hear. [Tweet]. @devisridhar. https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1242743618986745861
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A successful stimulus must bring investment closer to the level of available savings. But the moment financial markets get a whiff that this is about to happen, they will push interest rates up to a level reflecting the better balance between savings and investment. Immediately, corporations hooked on low interest rates will face ruin; so will their bankers.
Sudden death by stimulus.
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Dr Phil Hammond 💙. (2020, December 6). In some parts of the country, 31% of care home staff come from the EU. Some areas already have a 26% vacancy rate. And on January 1, EU recruitment will plummet because workers earn less than the £26,500 threshold. A very predictable recruitment crisis on top of the Covid crisis. [Tweet]. @drphilhammond. https://twitter.com/drphilhammond/status/1335490431837200384
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There’s so much money that goes to the creditors to the top 1 percent or 5 percent that there is no money for capital investment, there is no money for growth. And, since 1980 as you know, real wages in America have been stable. All the growth has been in property owners and predators and the FIRE sector, the rest of the economy is in stagnation.
So which seems likelier: that we're no better off than we were a quarter century ago, or that Shadow Stats is total bunk?
This is an easy question to answer from my perspective. For me (age 62) and most of my peers, their kids and their peers, we are NO better off than we were a quarter century ago! A large part is the change from Industrial/Manufacturing to Technology and the outsourced labor and manufacturing. America has changed, this is FACT
The intellectual cesspool of the inflation truthers
Powerful Headline (words) from a Washington Post article under Economic Policy. WORDS.....! Words..... When you study Legal Theory you learn that "words" play a significant role in all aspects of social order.
This statement simply implies the use of consistent narrative (story) to allow control of the rhetoric. Narrative can be viewed as believable while Rhetoric is a general pejorative. When the rhetoric is mis or dis-information the narrative must be credible.
Main stream media (MSM) has held a long-term standing across the world as being credible. This standing is eroding. It has eroded considerably over the last 25 years among critical thinkers and the general population has started to take notice.
I question everything from MSM especially when narrative is duplicated with identical rhetoric across known government media assets. History is a wonderful thing when searching for Truth. Events in historical time periods can be researched, parsed and studied for patterns based on future evidence and outcomes.
Information "Spin" is real and happens for one purpose, that purpose is to benefit a position, agenda, person, plan, etc., by manipulating (advertising, PR, propaganda) information. Spin is difficult to refute without hard facts. Spin has a short-term shelf life, but that is all it needs to chart a new course, set the "ball" in motion so to say.
The quest for Truth is everywhere and not limited to the economic topics linked here. This is just a topic that started a thought process where I had access to a convenient tool (Hypothesis) to bookmark my thoughts and research.
Primary thought is: The Quest for Truth. Subcategories would provide a structured topic for the thought. In this case the subcategory would be: US Economy, Inflation
Targets (data, methods, people, time, semantics, agenda, demographic, motive, means, media, money, status) hold a position in time long enough to fulfill a purpose or agenda. Sometimes they don't consciously change, but history over time shines light and opens cracks in original narrative that leads to new truth's, real or imagined.
Horton, Richard. ‘Offline: Science and Politics in the Era of COVID-19’. The Lancet 396, no. 10259 (24 October 2020): 1319. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32221-2.
Time. ‘The Great Reset: How to Build a Better World Post-COVID-19’. Accessed 19 February 2021. https://time.com/collection/great-reset/.
Study shows vaccine nationalism could cost rich countries US$4.5 trillion. (2021, January 25). ICC - International Chamber of Commerce. https://iccwbo.org/media-wall/news-speeches/study-shows-vaccine-nationalism-could-cost-rich-countries-us4-5-trillion/
Americans and the World believe or want to believe that the United States is built upon a Market Economy.
Historical context validates a classic Market Economy theory as directed by our Founding Fathers and Constitution. We clearly do not have a pure Market Economy today (2021).
Most Americans lump (through education) the concept of economics and government together, into 3 basic categories; Capitalism, Socialism and Communism.
The U.S. is a Capitalist Nation with a corresponding market economy.
Is this statement Fact or Hypothesis ?
Can we still rely on textbook economic models in the 21st Century?
Network, T. O. F. (2021, February 8). The Haves and Have-Nots: The geopolitical dilemma of COVID vaccine equity. The OECD Forum Network. http://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/the-haves-and-have-nots-the-geopolitical-dilemma-of-covid-vaccine-equity
Union membership & income of the 10% are mirror images! (source: Economic Policy Institute, 2019)
Πρώτον, οι κυβερνήσεις πρέπει να καταργήσουν όλους τους κανόνες και τις ρυθμίσεις που εμποδίζουν τη συσσώρευση κέρδους, το οποίο θα πρέπει να είναι αφορολόγητο. Δεύτερον, οφείλουν να πουλήσουν όλη τη δημόσια περιουσία σε ιδιωτικές εταιρείες και τα κέρδη, αντί να πηγαίνουν στο κράτος και να τα ξαναεπενδύει στην κοινωνία (δημόσια έργα, παιδεία, υγεία, κ.λπ.), να δίνονται όλα στους ιδιώτες. Τρίτον, κατάργηση του κράτους πρόνοιας και περικοπή όλων των κοινωνικών δαπανών. Αυτά συνοδεύονται με ένα πλήθος λεπτομερειών: ιδιωτικοποίηση ιατροφαρμακευτικής περίθαλψης, ταχυδρομείων, παιδείας, συγκοινωνιών, λιμανιών, δασών κ.λπ. Ακόμα και πάρκων. Επιπλέον η εργασία δεν θα έχει καμία προστασία και δεν θα υπάρχει κατώτερος μισθός
Σύνοψη του νεοφιλελεύθερου μοντέλο σε 3 βήματα, με τα λόγια του Κοροβέση.
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UNCTAD (2020) Coronavirus will cost global tourism at least $1.2 trillion. https://unctad.org/news/coronavirus-will-cost-global-tourism-least-12-trillion
How can it be bad for things to come into the U.S. cheaply? How can it be bad to have a bargain at Wal-Mart?’ Sure, it’s held inflation down, and it’s great to have bargains,” says Dobbins. “But you can’t buy anything if you’re not employed. We are shopping ourselves out of jobs.
Katy Milkman on how to nudge people to accept a covid-19 vaccine. (2020, November 30). The Economist. https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2020/11/30/katy-milkman-on-how-to-nudge-people-to-accept-a-covid-19-vaccine
ReconfigBehSci @SciBeh (2020) For those who might think this issue isn't settled yet, the piece include below has further graphs indicating just how much "protecting the economy" is associated with "keeping the virus under control" Twitter. Retrieved from: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1306216113722871808
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The Ideology of Hacking
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The hacker movement is a political project. Like the activity of many 'alternative' subcultures that are not directly defined by their political engagement, "the struggles are at once economic, political, and cultural - and hence they are biopolitical struggles, struggles over the form of life. They are constituent struggles, creating new public spaces and new forms of community" [46]. The chief uniting and mobilising force for the hacker underground is the common enemy of Microsoft (Bezroukov, 1999a). Opposition to Microsoft draws both from socialist anarchistic principles, and from high-tech libertarianism. The rightwing drift, dubbed as the Californian Ideology, is a recent transition, and not surprising given the hegemonic dominance of the corporate sector in the United States and the greater stakes in free software for business. However, it runs counter to the roots of hacking, which essentially is a reaction against Taylorism (Hannemyr, 1999). Basic motivations to engage in free programming are the rush of technological empowerment (Sterling, 1994), the joy of un-alienated creativity (Moglen, 1999), and the sense of belonging to a community (commonly recognised by hackers themselves as 'ego', but reputation only viable within a group of peers, i.e. a community). Those values may not seem political at first sight, but they are on collision course with the commercial agenda of turning the Internet into a marketplace. The rising tension within the hacker community are illuminated by the words of Manuel Castells: "The struggle between diverse capitalists and miscellaneous working class is subsumed into the more fundamental opposition between the bare logic of capital flows and the cultural values of human experience"
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In the past two decades, the policy concept of a knowledge economy hasincreasingly become an object of knowledge and governance
The backlash from gig economy companies was immediate, and Uber and similar app-based businesses have committed nearly $200 million to support a state ballot measure — making it the costliest in state history — that would exempt them from the law.
This is a pretty good indicator that it will save them 10x to 100x this amount to get rid of this law.
One should ask: "Why don't they accept it and just pass this money along to their employees."
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The attention of the audience is a writer's most precious possession, and the value of audience attention is seldom more clear than in writing for the Web. The time, care, and expense devoted to creating and promoting a hypertext are lost if readers arrive, glance around, and click elsewhere. How can the craft of hypertext invite readers to stay, to explore, and to reflect?
A very early statement about what was about to become the "attention economy"
We need to debate what kind of hypermedia suit our vision of society - how we create the interactive products and on-line services we want to use, the kind of computers we like and the software we find most useful. We need to find ways to think socially and politically about the machines we develop. While learning from the can-do attitude of the Californian individualists, we also must recognise that the potentiality of hypermedia can never solely be realised through market forces. We need an economy which can unleash the creative powers of hi-tech artisans. Only then can we fully grasp the Promethean opportunities of hypermedia as humanity moves into the next stage of modernity.
Great ending. These words are as true today as they were 25 years ago.
Third, content collapse puts all types of information into direct competition. The various producers and providers of content, from journalists to influencers to politicians to propagandists, all need to tailor their content and its presentation to the algorithms that determine what people see. The algorithms don’t make formal or qualitative distinctions; they judge everything by the same criteria. And those criteria tend to promote oversimplification, emotionalism, tendentiousness, tribalism — the qualities that make a piece of information stand out, at least momentarily, from the screen’s blur.
This is a terrifically painful and harmful thing. How can we redesign a system that doesn't function this way?
Anomie (/ˈænəˌmi/) is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals".[1] It is the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community, e.g., under unruly scenarios resulting in fragmentation of social identity and rejection of self-regulatory values.
I can't help but see this definition and think it needs to be applied to economics immediately. In particular I can think of a few quick examples of economic anomie which are artificially covering up a free market and causing issues within individual communities.
College Textbooks: Here publishers are marketing to professors who assign particular textbooks and subverting students which are the actual market and consumers of those textbooks. This causes an inflated market and has allowed textbook prices to spiral out of control.
The American Health Care Market In this example, the health care providers (doctors, hospitals, etc.) have been segmented away from their consumers (patients) by intermediary insurance companies which are driving the market to their own good rather than a free-er set of smaller (and importantly local) markets that would be composed of just the sellers and the buyers. As a result, the consumer of health care has no ability to put a particular price on what they're receiving (and typically they rarely ever ask, even more so when they have insurance). This type of economic anomie is causing terrific havoc within the area.
(Aside: while the majority of health care markets is very small in size (by distance), I will submit that the advent of medical tourism does a bit to widen potential markets, but this segment of the market is tiny and very privileged in comparison.)
But that state of consciousness that permits the growth of liberalism seems to stabilize in the way one would expect at the end of history if it is underwritten by the abundance of a modern free market economy.
Writers spend an awful lot of time focused too carefully on the free market economy, but don't acknowledge a lot of the major benefits of the non-free market parts which are undertaken and executed often by governments and regulatory environments. (Hacker & Pierson, 2016)
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Announcing the New Law and Political Economy Project
Interesting, read more!
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