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Alternatives to capitalism – participatory economics?

• July 25, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Anarchy, Economics, Philosophy, Society, Work
Tags: Buckminster Fuller, Capitalism, Direct Democracy, Economic Democracy, John Dewey, Keynes, Markets, Michael Albert, Parecon, Participatory Economics, Socialism, Transition

Cosmic perspectives on human survival

• July 19, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Philosophy, Science
Tags: Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, Hubble Deep Field, Thich Nhat Hanh

Classical Liberalism and the meaning of work

• July 17, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Classical Liberalism, Philosophy, Work
Tags: Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, Classical Liberalism, Division of Labour, John Stuart Mill, Neo-Liberalism, Noam Chomsky, Thomas Jefferson, Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Psychologically smart activism for creatively maladjusted citizens

• July 15, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Philosophy, Society
Tags: Activism, Buddhism, Creatively Maladjusted, Environmental Advocacy and Organising Program, Four Noble Truths, Martin Luther King, philosophy, Psychology, Steve Chase, Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam War

The Martin Luther King Jr we don’t remember – socio-economic critic, anti-capitalist and supporter of a Guaranteed Income

• July 11, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Civil Disobedience, Society, Work
Tags: Bank Bailouts, Basic Income, Capitalism, Citizen's Income, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights Movement, Guaranteed Income, Martin Luther King, Poverty

My take on the philosophy of Ecological Economics

• July 7, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Economics, Green Politics, Philosophy
Tags: Ecological Economics, Frederick Soddy, Green Movement, Herman Daly, Neo-Classical Economics

Some thoughts about life on Earth – the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, Peak Oil and transition economies.

• July 6, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in Economics, Green Politics, Science
Tags: Ecological Economics, Entropy, Green Politics, Peak Oil, Thermodynamics, Transition

Capitalism: the worst economic system, apart from all the rest?

• July 5, 2011 • 4 Comments

Posted in Economics, Work
Tags: Capitalism, Democracy, Private Property, Small is Beautiful, The Acquisitive Society

Rethinking Economic Growth

• July 2, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Economics, Green Politics, International Development, Monetary Reform
Tags: Economics, Economics Unmasked, GDP, GPI, Inernational Development, ISEW, Manfred Max-Neef, Monetary Reform, Sustainablilty, Threshold Hypothesis

Anarchy – what it means to me and what it could mean for the future

• July 1, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Anarchy, Philosophy, Society
Tags: Anarchism, Anarchy, Mikhail Bakunin, Noam Chomsky, philosophy, Politics, Transition