Joseph Stiglitz: World Economically and Politically Destabilised
This overview of Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Winning Economist and proponent of alternatives to the fundamental belief that globalisation and the invisible hand efficiently distribute resources and provides for market efficiency.
This is courtesy of Wikipedia.
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA, (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University.… Continue reading
Robert Theobald: Towards Full Unemployment Moving Beyond Wage Slavery
An excerpt to give you the flavour of the paper:
“There has been much discussion in recent years of the increase in the number of hours of work and the decline in leisure. There is also much evidence from polling that people would choose to give up income in exchange for more hours to themselves… Continue reading
Futurist Thinker: Robert Theobald
Many years ago in Canberra I remember being invited to a two day conference on Futurist thinking and the keynote speaker was Robert Theobald. He died some years ago but he left an impression on me. Anyone who calls himself a cultural clown, has my attention (haha).
Here is an outline of one of those… Continue reading
The Venus Project of Future Possibilities
This organisation chose to follow me on Twitter so I had a look into them. What I sense by reading the introduction that the future is here. I just had a look at the designers biography, I will paste it at the end. The word Utopia jumped out. My thinking was utopia is possible when… Continue reading
State of the World Report 2011: Innovative Food Security
Food Security is the theme of this blog and the one before. I will focus on the State of the World Report 2011 produced by the Worldwatch Institute.
First I would like to start sharing with you my observations when I was in India in 2010. I found it hard to connect to the poverty.… Continue reading
Food Security Resilience or Genetically Modified Obsolescence?
“Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.” —Fidel Castro, 1998
I think of a planet that has evolved over 4 billion years. I think of natural… Continue reading