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Webstock '12: danah boyd - Culture of Fear + Attention Economy = ?!?! on Vimeo
"We live in a culture of fear. Fear feeds on attention and attention is captured by fear. Social media has complicated our relationship with attention and the rise of the attention economy highlights the challenges of dealing with this scarce resource. But what does this mean for the culture of fear? How are the technologies that we design to bring the world together being used to create new divisions? In this talk, danah will explore what happens at the intersection of the culture of fear and the attention economy."

[See also: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2012/SXSW2012.html ]
networkculture  control  arabspring  politics  policy  power  jaronlanier  stewartbrand  johnperrybarlow  legal  law  internetbubbles  regulation  webstock  webstock12  data  safety  onlinesafety  children  facebook  society  socialnorms  networks  fearmongering  visibility  behavior  sharing  transparency  cyberbullying  bullying  information  advertising  infooverload  panic  moralpanics  unknown  perceptionofrisk  perception  neurosis  internet  online  parenting  riskassessment  risk  cultureoffear  2012  attentioneconomy  attention  technology  responsibility  culture  fear  socialmedia  danahboyd  from delicious
9 weeks ago by robertogreco
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - YouTube
"Development economics expert Ha-Joon Chang dispels the myths and prejudices that have come to dominate our understanding of how the world works in a lecture at the RSA."
ideology  taxes  taxation  freemarkets  growth  regulation  trickledowneconomics  inequality  wealthcreation  financialcrisis  myths  via:chrisberthelsen  2010  economics  capitalism  ha-joonchang  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift | Video on TED.com
"Paddy Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk at TEDxBrussels he outlines the three major global shifts that he sees coming."
government  interconnectivity  interconnectedness  communities  networks  brasil  india  china  world  multipolar  us  un  turbulence  global  governance  society  unregulatedspace  terrorism  crime  regulation  corporations  history  2011  politics  power  paddyashton 
january 2012 by robertogreco
BBC News - Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy
"Now there is a school of social theory that has a name for a system in which press barons, police officers & elected politicians operate a mutual back-scratching club…"the manufacturing of consent".<br />
Pioneered by Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky, the theory states that essentially the mass media is a propaganda machine; the advertising model makes large corporate advertisers into "unofficial regulators"; the media live in fear of politicians; truly objective journalism is impossible because it is unprofitable (& plagued by "flak" generated w/in the legal system by resistant corporate power).<br />
At one level, this week's events might be seen as a vindication of the theory: News International has admitted paying police officers; & politicians are admitting they have all played the game of influence ("We've all been in this together" said Cameron, disarmingly). The journalists are baring their breasts & examining their consciences. The whole web of influence has been uncovered.""
politics  media  networks  journalism  uk  2011  davidcameron  rupertmurdoch  hierarchy  control  noamchomsky  manufacturingconsent  consent  advertising  propaganda  power  systems  massmedia  influence  regulation  corporations  corporatism  via:preoccupations  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Week 16: Busman’s holiday | Urbanscale [Oh, the implications for our education system as well: swarm-like behavior, informal solutions, tech integration, light touch of government…]
"…despite South Africa’s clear desire to benefit from so-called “South-to-South” knowledge transfer, Curitiba- or Bogota-style BRT strategies have proven untenable…more supple solutions have appeared, notably rise of informal transportation sector…<br />
…swarm-like behavior…relatively effortless way in which taxi operators have incorporated tech…endlessly fascinating…But SA government’s pragmatic response to rise of informal transit…particularly clever & inspiring…[explained]…This kind of light touch on part of gov extends at least some basic protections to riders, w/out imposing laggy top-down planning on system as whole.<br />
Pieterse really got me thinking about potential of informal transit for my own city…seems to be one of those areas where architecture of safety regulation, labor laws, & other protective measures we embraced in society—for good & sufficient reason!—also inhibits emergence of more flexible & potentially more effective & sustainable modes of getting around."
adamgreenfield  urbanscale  transit  mobility  informal  lcproject  toapplytoeducation  policy  flexibility  sustainability  southafrica  density  laborlaws  society  startingover  leapfrogging  regulation  diggingoutfromunderweightoflegallayers  safety  2011  technology  informalsystems  grassroots  thecityishereforyoutouse  pragmatism  johannesburg  edgarpieterse  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Prescribed pain by corporate America - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
"This industry is one of the most profitable in the country making about 18 cents profit on every dollar of sales; it is aided by government using our tax dollars to fund about one third of all research on new drugs the industry gets at no charge; the industry spends about twice as much on advertising, promotion and administrative costs as they do on R & D to develop new drugs; the prices charged for prescription drugs in the US are inordinately high compared to the rest of the world and are rising at about four times the rate of inflation; these rising costs plus those for most all health services are rising so fast, companies are forcing their employees to pay a greater share of them or are reducing overall health care benefits.<br />
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Ever feel like you are the bank and they are Dillinger? If not, you probably should."
government  copyright  regulation  pharmaceuticals  bigpharma  markets  health  us  policy  politics  influence  drugs  2011  corporations  corporatism  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
In Gettys' Exclusive Preschool, It's Tough to Fly from Gilded Cage - The Bay Citizen
"Ann and Gordon Getty run an exclusive, invitation-only free preschool in their San Francisco home, but despite the cachet of the school, all is apparently not well inside"
via:javierarbona  gordongetty  anngetty  getty  sanfrancisco  pacificheights  elitism  education  children  parenting  2011  regulation  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Not Your Father's School: A school is... (Verse 4)
"What independent schools are obligated to be is the very best, and the very most true to their missions and values, that they can be. This is not about some puffed-up version of “excellence” but rather about serving their immediate community of students and families superbly—teaching well and living up to their own highest stated ideals. Affordability, and casting the widest net possible to attract and retain the most appropriate students and teachers, ought to be ambitions of equal importance. <br />
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A great school services its larger community not by finding ways to do service or make payments but by authentically and transparently existing and participating in all its communities…<br />
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The public purpose of independent schools is to vigorously exercise their freedom to be themselves and, in our time, to explore and innovate as perhaps only they—permitted and even encouraged as they are to pursue and grow around their own ideals—are able to."
tcsnmy  independentschools  service  noblesseoblige  schools  society  education  transparency  innovation  regulation  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Musing about 2011 and an un-national generation – confused of calcutta
"The internet, Web, Cloud, these are essentially disruptive global constructs for many of us. The atoms that serve as infrastructure for these global constructs are physically located in specific countries; the laws & regulations that govern the industries disrupted by these constructs are themselves usually national in structure; the firms doing the disrupting are quasi-stateless in character, trying…to be “global”; emerging & future generations have worldviews that are becoming more & more AmazonBay, discarding the national middle for edges of global & hyperlocal.<br />
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We are all so steeped in national structures for every aspect of this: the law, governance model, access & delivery technologies, ways of doing business — that we’re missing the point.<br />
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Everything is becoming more stateless, more global. We don’t know how to deal with it. So we’re all trying very hard to put genies back in bottles, pave cowpaths, turn back waves, all with the same result.<br />
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Abject failure."
postnational  global  globalization  globalism  nationalism  national  business  law  culture  mobility  cv  jprangaswami  digital  analog  thirdculture  un-national  generations  internet  web  cloud  government  wikileaks  taxes  regulation  fundraising  residency  identity  statelessness  open  closed  trade  copyright  regional  local  hyperlocal  williamstafford  poetry  borders  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Soul of Web 2.0 | the human network [via: http://willrichardson.posterous.com/quote-of-the-day-mark-pesce]
"This is the essential starting point for any discussion of what the Web is, what it is becoming, and how it should be presented. The individual, with their needs, their passions, their opinions, their desires and their goals is always paramount. We tend to forget this, or overlook it, or just plain ignore it. We design from a point of view which is about what we have to say, what we want to present, what we expect to communicate. It’s not that that we should ignore these considerations, but they are always secondary. The Web is a ground for being. Individuals do not present themselves as receptacles to be filled. They are souls looking to be fulfilled. This is as true for children as for adults – perhaps more so – and for this reason the educational Web has to be about space and place for being, not merely the presentation of a good-looking set of data."
markpesce  sharing  internet  socialnetworking  social  iteration  regulation  contribution  connecting  open  facebook  twitter  web  online  openness  williamgibson  streetuse  design  user-centered  self-directedlearning  communication  existence  edtech  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Space Cadets - Charlie's Diary ["Space colonization is implicitly incompatible with both libertarian ideology and the myth of the American frontier."]
"There is an ideology that they are attached to...westward frontier expansion, Myth of West, westward expansion of US btwn 1804 (start of Lewis & Clark expedition) & 1880 (closing of American frontier). Leaving aside matter of dispossession & murder of indigenous peoples, I tend to feel some sympathy for grandchildren of this legend: it's potent metaphor for freedom from social constraint combined w/ opportunity to strike it rich by sweat of one's brow & they've grown up in shadow of this legend in progressively more regulated & complex society.
2010  exploration  geography  libertarianism  mythology  politics  space  colonization  policy  regulation  freedom  charliestross  americanfrontier  ideology  empire  spacetravel  spaceexploration 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Why we [still on May 31] don't know why the Dow fell [on May 6, 2010] | Marketplace From American Public Media
"Moon: Sow how can regulators after all this time not have any clue as to what happened?
finance  markets  wallstreet  complexity  dishonesty  2010  benbernake  regulation  scary  gambling  investing  stockmarket 
june 2010 by robertogreco
apophenia » Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated [notes are distilled by David Smith]
"People’s language reflects that people are depending on Facebook just like they depended on the Internet a decade ago. Facebook may not be at the scale of the Internet (or the Internet at the scale of electricity), but that doesn’t mean that it’s not angling to be a utility or quickly becoming one. Don’t forget: we spent how many years being told that the Internet wasn’t a utility, wasn’t a necessity… now we’re spending what kind of money trying to get universal broadband out there without pissing off the monopolistic beasts because we like to pretend that choice and utility can sit easily together. And because we’re afraid to regulate. … Utilities get regulated. … The problem with Facebook is that it’s becoming an international utility … regulation’s impact tends to extend much further than one company. And I worry about what kinds of regulation we’ll see. … I just wish that Facebook would’ve taken a more responsible path so that we wouldn’t have to deal with what’s coming."
danahboyd  socialnetworking  privacy  facebook  government  transparency  utilities  2010  monopoly  business  regulation  security  internet  law 
may 2010 by robertogreco
College, Inc. « The Quick and the Ed
"problem with for-profit higher education...people like Clifford are applying private sector principles to an industry w/ a number of distinct characteristics. Four stand out. [1] it’s heavily subsidized. Corporate giants like the U of Phoenix are now pulling in 100s of millions of dollars per year from taxpayers, through federal grants & student loans. [2] it’s awkwardly regulated. Regional accreditors may protest that their imprimatur isn’t like a taxicab medallion to be bought & sold on open market. But as the documentary makes clear, that’s precisely the way it works now. (Clifford puts the value at $10 million.)
money  education  forprofit  profits  markets  highereducation  highered  collegeinc  corruption  taxes  subsidies  experience  value  reputation  consumption  consumers  consumerprotection  regulation 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Op-Ed Contributor - A Spill of Our Own - NYTimes.com
"Effectively, we’ve been importing oil and exporting spills to villages and waterways all over the world.
disaster  oil  gulfoilspill  us  energy  2010  demand  regulation 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Facebook: pis…, er, urinating in everyone’s soup
"Another problem Facebook is creating with their reckless behavior is
facebook  internet  regulation  policy  privacy 
december 2009 by robertogreco
How to fix capitalism
"Break up monopolies and oligopolies...Remove barriers to entry...Reduce bureaucracy...Stop being “business friendly”...Financially penalise large businesses...Give shareholders control...Reject the corrosive “greed is good” ideology...Break the loop"
economics  policy  capitalism  socialinnovation  business  finance  regulation  toobigtofail  bureaucracy  via:preoccupations 
november 2009 by robertogreco
SSRN-How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even in a City without Zoning) by Michael Lewyn
"In fact, a wide variety of municipal regulatory and spending policies have made Houston more sprawling and automobile-dominated than would a more free-market-oriented set of policies. The article also proposes free-market, anti-sprawl alternatives to those government policies."
houston  sprawl  regulation  zoning  government  urbanism  urban  cities  planning  landuse 
september 2009 by robertogreco
San Diego Reader | Pedicab Wars
"This is how bad it’s gotten, the tension between local pedicab riders and the foreign students who swell their ranks in summertime till they outnumber locals about six to one. This explosion is part of 60-year-old ex-chef Harinton’s pedicab life, captured on video by fellow pedicab rider Paul Reeves and filmmaker Rigo Reyes.
sandiego  pedicabs  regulation  bikes  biking  business  tourism  safety  immigration  economics 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Free Parking Isn't Free
"parking spaces can cost between $10,000 and $50,000 – typically more than the cost of the car that occupies it. High parking requirements can raise the price of homes and apartments by $50,000 to $100,000, a serious challenge to affordability." Not enough people complain about subsidized parking, not nearly as many as those that oppose subsidized mass transit, and thus we live in the cities that result.
transportation  cost  urbanplanning  urban  urbanism  price  subsidies  parking  policy  transit  cars  economics  planning  cities  zoning  development  society  environment  sustainability  regulation  sprawl  costs  us 
august 2009 by robertogreco
The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (To a point) | Newsweek.com [Matt Taibbi responds: http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/06/24/fareed-zakarias-manifesto/]
"There's a need for greater self-regulation not simply on Wall Street but also on Pennsylvania Avenue. We get exercised about the immorality of politicians when they're caught in sex scandals. Meanwhile they triple the national debt, enrich their lobbyist friends & write tax loopholes for specific corporations—all perfectly legal—and we regard this as normal. The revolving door between Washington government offices and lobbying firms is so lucrative and so established that anyone pointing out that it is—at base—institutionalized corruption is seen as baying at the moon...We are in the midst of a vast crisis & there is enough blame to go around & many fixes to make, from the international system to national governments to private firms. But at heart, there needs to be a deeper fix within all of us, a simple gut check. If it doesn't feel right, we shouldn't be doing it. That's not going to restore growth or mend globalization or save capitalism, but it might be a small start to sanity."
fareedzakaria  crisis  economics  capitalism  greed  regulation  finance  government  policy  politics  control  markets  ethics  morality 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Too complex to exist - The Boston Globe
"It may be true, in fact, that complex networks such as financial systems face an inescapable trade-off - between size and efficiency on one hand, and global stability on the other. Once they have been assembled, in other words, globally interconnected and integrated financial networks just may be too complex to prevent crises like the current one from reoccurring.
markets  regulation  complexity  failure  crisis  finance  money  business  economics  risk  duncanwatts  society  systems  banking  blackswans 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Europe's new pecking order | A new pecking order | The Economist
"The downturn has also confirmed that the continental model has some strengths. France has a comparatively efficient public sector, thanks in part to years of investment in better roads, more high-speed trains, nuclear energy and even the restoration of old cathedrals (see article). Nor is it just a matter of pumping in ever more taxpayers’ cash. By any measure France’s health system delivers better value for money than America’s costlier one. Germany has not just looked after its public finances more prudently than others; its export-driven model has forced its companies to hold down costs, making them competitive not only in Europe but also globally. By design as well as luck, much of continental Europe avoided the debt-fuelled housing bubbles that popped spectacularly in Britain and America (though Spain did not, see article)."
via:cityofsound  france  germany  us  uk  capitalism  economics  regulation  global 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Education - Change.org: How Save Home-Schooled Children from the Worst Homes?
Several interesting comments including: "I, too, have met that one whacko family that even other homeschoolers agree should not be homeschooling, but I am not willing to give up my rights and those of the hundreds of other normal homeschoolers I know so that crazy family's kids are forced into school -- and continue to suffer from having crappy parents anyway." AND the comment from Dawn West.
education  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  parenting  activism  clayburell  learning  law  legal  regulation 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world by By Nassim Nicholas Taleb [also at: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/tenprinciples.pdf]
1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become too big to fail. 2. No socialisation of losses & privatisation of gains. 3. People who were driving a school bus blindfolded (& crashed it) should never be given a new bus. 4. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards. 5. Complexity from globalisation and highly networked economic life needs to be countered by simplicity in financial products. The complex economy is already a form of leverage: the leverage of efficiency. 6. Complex derivatives need to be banned because nobody understands them and few are rational enough to know it. 7. Governments should never need to “restore confidence”. 8. Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. 9. Citizens should not depend on financial assets or fallible “expert” advice for their retirement. 10. we will have to remake the system before it does so itself"
nassimtaleb  blackswans  2009  capitalism  bailout  corruption  economics  us  business  finance  crisis  simplicity  complexity  politics  banking  recession  regulation  bailouts  resilience 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS - Interview with William K. Black, April 3, 2009
"The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with William K. Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout."
billmoyers  williamblack  via:javierarbona  regulation  corruption  bailout  recession  meltdown  aig  banking  economics  politics  finance  crisis  2009  fraud  crime  law  timgeithner 
april 2009 by robertogreco
CONGRESS PASSES WIDE-RANGING BILL EASING BANK LAWS - The New York Times
"The decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 provoked dire warnings from a handful of dissenters that the deregulation of Wall Street would someday wreak havoc on the nation's financial system. The original idea behind Glass-Steagall was that separation between bankers and brokers would reduce the potential conflicts of interest that were thought to have contributed to the speculative stock frenzy before the Depression. ... The opponents of the measure gloomily predicted that by unshackling banks and enabling them to move more freely into new kinds of financial activities, the new law could lead to an economic crisis down the road when the marketplace is no longer growing briskly."
1999  banking  glass-steagall  finance  recession  politics  economics  government  regulation  history 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Do not rely on bankers | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
"There is another argument, implicit or explicit, for the nationalisation of banks; we can not trust bankers not to leave with the cash, let alone spend any of the assistance provided by the government in the public interest. Two recent studies that analyse the experience of recent years show that bankers will not hesitate to enrich themselves at the expense of the public if they have the opportunity."
banking  crisis  nationalization  2009  policy  economics  government  regulation  finance  bailout 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Seth's Blog: Beware of trade guilds maintaining the status quo
"Whenever a trade association raises the barricades and tries to lobby their way into maintaining the status quo, they are doing their members a disservice. Instead of spending time and insight and effort reinventing what they do and organizing for a better future, the members are lulled into a sense of security that somehow, somehow, the future will be just like today."
progress  sethgodin  kindle  regulation  lobbying  marketing  politics  business  change  innovation  reinvention  future  publishing  guilds  tradeguilds  unions  reform 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Op-Ed Contributors - How to Repair a Broken Financial World - NYTimes.com
part 1 here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04lewiseinhorn.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
michaellewis  davideinhorn  collapse  crisis  finance  2007  2008  2009  banking  subprime  lending  economics  policy  government  regulation  us  sec  greed  money  influence  power  capitalism  greatdepression  greatrepression  recession  housing 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Op-Ed Contributors - The End of the Financial World as We Know It - NYTimes.com
part 2 here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04lewiseinhornb.html?pagewanted=all
michaellewis  davideinhorn  collapse  crisis  finance  2007  2008  2009  banking  subprime  lending  economics  policy  government  regulation  us  sec  greed  money  influence  power  capitalism  greatdepression  greatrepression  recession  housing 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Joseph E. Stiglitz on capitalist fools: About Us: vanityfair.com
"Behind the debate over remaking U.S. financial policy will be a debate over who’s to blame. It’s crucial to get the history right, writes a Nobel-laureate economist, identifying five key mistakes—under Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II—and one national delusion."
josephstiglitz  bubbles  finance  crisis  2008  georgewbush  alangreenspan  billclinton  us  markets  deregulation  bailout  regulation  business  history  economics  politics  capitalism  meltdown  banking 
december 2008 by robertogreco
ed4wb » Insulat-Ed
Applying Clay Shirky: "A scribe [school], someone [an institution] who has given his life over [whose mission is] to literacy [education] as a cardinal virtue, would be conflicted about the meaning of movable type [free-forming educational networks]. After all, if books [information/teachers/experts] are good, then surely more books [information/teachers/experts] are better. But at the same time the very scarcity of literacy [information/teachers/experts] was what gave scribal [school/institutional] effort its primacy, and the scribal [school/institutional] way of life was based on this scarcity. Now the scribe’s [institution’s/school’s] skills [information/teachers/expertise] were [are] eminently replaceable, and his [its] function–making copies of books [educating]–was [is] better accomplished by ignoring tradition than by embracing it.” (p. 67)
education  learning  tcsnmy  networks  constraints  filtering  insulation  rules  regulation  clayshirky  control  change  reform  school  schooling  policy  networkedlearning  administration  leadership  management  connectivism  21stcenturyskills  networking  learning2.0  future 
december 2008 by robertogreco
The Crisis & What to Do About It - The New York Review of Books
"The salient feature of the current financial crisis is that it was not caused by some external shock like OPEC raising the price of oil or a particular country or financial institution defaulting. The crisis was generated by the financial system itself...Excessive reliance on those mathematical models did untold harm....The new paradigm has far-reaching implications for the regulation of financial markets. Since they are prone to create asset bubbles, regulators such as the Fed, the Treasury, and the SEC must accept responsibility for preventing bubbles from growing too big. Until now financial authorities have explicitly rejected that responsibility."
georgesoros  finance  markets  2008  greatdepression  recession  corruption  creditcrunch  risk  investment  bubble  regulation  economics  capitalism  crisis  money 
november 2008 by robertogreco
reportonbusiness.com: What we need are more builders
"In contrast to traders, builders invest with the intent of seeing a business opportunity develop over time. They're working on the basis that an injection of capital and support can move a company forward to not only greater returns but also greater capacity for future growth and stability. Builders invest over the long term and integrate risk management into their strategies as they must inevitably ride the highs and lows of the economy. Builders expect, and navigate through, the downturns based on a confidence in the underlying fundamentals of the business, its market and its management. Builders understand and engage in the businesses in which they invest and thus contribute both to the businesses' success as well as that of investors."
business  economics  finance  risk  value  growth  crisis  regulation  stability  markets  builders  traders 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Reversal of Fortune: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
"Describing how ideology, special-interest pressure, populist politics, and sheer incompetence have left the U.S. economy on life support, the author puts forth a clear, commonsense plan to reverse the Bush-era follies and regain America’s economic sanity." ... "When the American economy enters a downturn, you often hear the experts debating whether it is likely to be V-shaped (short and sharp) or U-shaped (longer but milder). Today, the American economy may be entering a downturn that is best described as L-shaped. It is in a very low place indeed, and likely to remain there for some time to come."
josephstiglitz  economics  us  crisis  bailout  2008  banking  finance  money  policy  politics  sustainability  energy  longterm  future  taxes  biofuels  oil  gamechanging  regulation  subprime  meltdown  recession  wallstreet  reaganomics  georgewbush  housing  jobs  markets  unemployment  freemarkets  greatdepression  wealth  disparity  lending  reform  change 
october 2008 by robertogreco
McCain on banking and health - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
"Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform: Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation. So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!"
johnmccain  banking  government  elections  2008  policy  health  healthcare  politics  economics  crisis  regulation  deregulation 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Daily Kos: Three Times is Enemy Action
"This is enemy action...a bullet deliberately fired into economy by men willing to exercise their ideology regardless of cost to taxpayers. Men who have every expectation that they can plunder the system again & again, while the public picks up the tab. John McCain may not have had his finger directly on the trigger, but he was there. He assisted. These were his personal friends and philosophical comrades. He may not be the high priest, but he has been a loyal acolyte in the cult of deregulation. It may come as a surprise to the champions of deregulation, but nobody likes regulation. The restrictions that were placed on banks, S&Ls & other institutions in 30s weren't put there because someone thought it would be fun [bet] because they addressed problems that had just been clearly & painfully revealed. They were put in place because they were necessary. It's bad enough if John McCain didn't know that, far worse if he did."
economics  politics  finance  2008  us  crisis  johnmccain  philgramm  history  greatdepression  banking  regulation 
september 2008 by robertogreco
U.S. financial crisis spreads toward your wallet | csmonitor.com
"In 2006, well before the financial crisis broke on the shores of the American economy, Ann Lee wrote a 22-page paper on "Wall Street's House of Cards." It warned of the danger to the nation from the sale of trillions of dollars of complex financial products called "structured credit derivatives" ... Seeking a reaction to her paper, she sent it to officials in Washington. Lee received an e-mail reply from Lawrence Lindsey, director of the National Economic Council under the first President Bush, who wrote that "both the practitioners and the regulators are well aware of the risks that are out there," including those in the subprime mortgage market. Mr. Lindsey held that the deregulated mortgage market was "much better" in early 2007 than the more regulated one in 1991, when there were also credit-market problems."
banking  finance  dept  economics  us  derivitives  wallstreet  mortgages  subprime  hedgefunds  regulation  deregulation  fauxpenmarkets  transparency 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Best. Bailout. Ever. - How the World Works - Salon.com
"Ponder that sentence for a moment. The Federal Reserve has decided it must order lenders not to make loans that they should not make. As Paul Krugman observed -- "Horse. Barn door." Perhaps if Bernanke's predecessor, Alan Greenspan, had taken it upon him
markets  collapse  finance  policy  regulation  freemarkets  housing  subprime 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Future of Copyright - "Every broken regulation brings a cry for at least one new regulation even more sweepingly worded than the last."
"Copyright law in the 21st century tends to be less concerned about concrete cases of infringement, and more about criminalizing entire technologies because of their potential uses...undermines the freedom of choice...chilling effects on innovation"
copyright  technology  regulation  law  ip  politics  policy  legal  filesharing  privacy  property  government  piratebay  bittorrent  piracy 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Juan Freire - From the Analogue Commons to the New Hybrid Public Spaces | Technophobiac News [also posted: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/05/juan-freire.php]
"Juan Freire is one of the very very few people who keep track of what is written in the field of ubiquitous computing, free software and technology but who would also hang around with media art curators and mingle with the hackers and the urbanists"
architecture  cities  future  play  theory  ubicomp  via:cityofsound  opensource  software  technology  mediart  hacking  urbanism  urban  juanfreire  commons  public  space  society  futurism  environment  sustainability  activism  resources  sociology  economics  government  systems  law  patents  regulation  freedom  anticommons  larrylessig  innovation  creativecommons  cc  capitalism  modernism  postmodernism  remkoolhaas  christopheralexander  junkspace  non-space  advertising  shopping  janejacobs  growth  wealth  well-being  stephendownes  social  art  diy  make  situationist  security  control  internet 
june 2008 by robertogreco
World Public Opinion
"Majorities in most countries continue to support the free market system, but over the last two years support has eroded in 10 of 18 countries regularly polled by GlobeScan. In several countries this drop in support has been quite sharp."
economics  globalization  politics  trends  markets  freemarket  capitalism  china  eu  us  brics  regulation  government  policy  society 
april 2008 by robertogreco
A VC: The Declining Power Of The Firm
"like government's pursuit of Microsoft in 90s, it will not...bring change to marketplace...will be rise of new way, like open source movement fundamentally changed software marketplace, that will bring change that is badly needed to financial markets."
business  umairhaque  change  economics  innovation  internet  microsoft  online  strategy  technology  trends  gamechanging  regulation  finance  via:preoccupations  banking  tylercowen  information  reform  recession  history  competition  control  crisis 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Beyond the Banking Crisis: A Strategy Crisis - Harvard Business Online's Umair Haque [see also: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/the-declining-p.html]
"orthodox strategy [hiding information and making things less liquid] doesn't stop at finance. Strategy as shadow-making, moral hazard, and market subversion is rife across the economic landscape...hardwired into stale, tired DNA [of industrial-era firm]"
via:preoccupations  banking  business  economics  finance  tylercowen  information  internet  change  reform  regulation  technology  strategy  recession  gamechanging  history  competition  control  crisis  trends  umairhaque 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Greedy City is eating away at Britain's backbone | Business | The Observer
"financial sector is an industry 'that generates vast rewards for insiders and repeated crises for hundreds of millions of innocent bystanders' who, to add insult to injury, then are obliged to pick up the pieces with their taxes"
via:preoccupations  accountability  transparency  finance  government  regulation  money  risk  london 
march 2008 by robertogreco
The Cars That ate London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Vienna, Athens .. - TIME
"In A.D. 125, a limit was placed on the number of vehicles that could enter Rome. For as long as there have been roads, it seems, there have been crowds of swearing, sweaty drivers — and schemes to get rid of them."
cities  traffic  roads  regulation  circulation  2003  london  rome  history  cars 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Marginal Revolution: The Law of Unintended Consequences
"Unintended consequences are not restricted to government regulation of society but can also happen when government tries to regulate other complex systems such as the ecosystem...can even happen in the attempted regulation of complex physical systems"
regulation  economics  government  management  policy  rationality  incentives  complexity  marginalrevolution  leadership  politics  nature 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Freedom to Tinker
"The focus is on issues related to legal regulation of technology, and especially on legal attempts to restrict the right of technologists and citizens to tinker with technological devices. But we reserve the right to write about anything that strikes our
activism  tinkering  technology  opensource  open  legal  law  homebrew  engineering  ethics  encryption  modding  mobile  commons  censorship  anarchy  software  making  make  hacking  hardware  piracy  policy  politics  regulation  security  society  patents  copyright 
december 2007 by robertogreco
Fuel for Thought: Financial Page: The New Yorker
"The curious fact is that many people buying three-ton Suburbans for that arduous two-mile trip to the supermarket also want Congress to pass laws making it harder to buy Suburbans at all."
business  cars  transportation  energy  environment  sustainability  law  rules  regulation  economics  politics  hockey  sports  consumer 
july 2007 by robertogreco
Chefs Topped With Debt - New York Times
"educators, lenders and the government regulators that are supposed to be watching them have to stop thinking of students as revenue streams and start thinking of them as students again"
education  colleges  universities  debt  economics  reform  alternative  money  regulation  food  culinaryarts  culinary  investment 
may 2007 by robertogreco

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