Economics
Social Capital Markets
From 2009 ... Who will build a more efficient marketplace? ... This week is Social Capital Markets week!
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Metrics
PULSE
The Alphabet Soup of Impact Measurement Tools: PULSE Makes Data Easier to Digest ...
PULSE is the only software on the market that works seamlessly with Salesforce.com and integrates with the IRIS taxonomy.
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Metrics
2012 Conference on Metrics
Conference on Metrics at Wharton Business School ... The New Metrics of Sustainable Business Conference
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Organizations
Trucost
This is contact information for Trucost, an organization that is applying a version of impact costing
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Metrics
Trucost Analysis
The True Cost of Food
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Initiatives
Trucost
Truecost has launched a new blog providing insight into the dependence of businesses on natural capital.
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Country ... USA
Money in politics ... Avaaz
Avaaz Petition: The 28th Amendment: Big money out of US politics!
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Big Print Brief
TVM ... accounting for valuadd as well as money profit
An very brief overview of the core idea of the TrueValueMetrics (TVM) system
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Big Print Brief
Profits up, society down is not sustainable
How jobs are a value in TVM but a liabilitiy in money profit accounting
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... About Obama
Tom Engelhardt ... Obama against the world ...
Obama's people are focused on the election, but the question is: Will he make it to November 7 and a second term?
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Country ... Egypt
Egypt - USA Relations
September 2012 ... US plan for Egypt aid hits roadblock ...
The chairwoman of the US House committee blocks US government's move to transfer $450m in assistance to Egypt.
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Country ... Spain
Banking implosion
Spain's banks 'need $76.3 billion' ...
According to an independent audit, Spain's troubled banks need an extra €59.3bn to survive a serious economic downturn.
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Development
The World Bank
The World Bank and the development delusion ...
The World Bank can be an effective tool in the fight against poverty with fundamental changes in its power structure.
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Country ... USA
Exceptional ... or Second Rate
We're Number ... 2? Are Americans in Denial About the Country's Decline? ...
China is rapidly passing us by. But Americans - and their leaders - refuse to come to terms with what this means for our future.
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Transparency
Rule of Law ... the Assange case
UK and Ecuador fail to agree on Assange fate ...
Officials fail to end deadlock over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that has lasted 100 days.
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Initiatives
Chris Chiaia ... United We Stand
Update from September 2012 ... ideas and initiatives that can make the world a better place
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Central Banking
What role the Central Bank?
The politics of central banking ...
Central banking is unavoidably political, no matter how much bankers and elected politicians tell us, that isn't.
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Country ... USA
Economic Analysis
Why we won and how we are losing ...
We may not be driving ourselves into extinction, but we are creating conditions that make our future frightening. |
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Energy
North American Power
This is a program that offers lower priced electical energy to consumers ... these are some of the 'small print' terms of service
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Country ... USA
Economics
Fortune ... Colvin and Sloan ... Forget Washington: Here's how we'd fix the economy
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Romney's worldview
The good, the bad and the politically ugly ...
Juxtaposed with Myanmar democratising, Romney's supporters reveal how terrifying America would be if they had their way.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012
Rachel Maddow Show ... September 28 2012 ... Mainly about the Romney GOP political campaign
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012
Rachel Maddow Show ... September 27 2012 ... Mainly about the Romney GOP political campaign
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Governance
American Democracy has been sold
Feast of fools ...
How American democracy became the property of a commercial oligarchy.
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Agriculture
Organic Foods
Organic farmers beat US droughts ...
Farmers say that they have fared better, thanks to alternative growing methods.
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Financial Implosion
Lest we forget
CSPAN ... Rep Paul Kanjorski Reviews the Bailout Situation
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Microfinance
The role of financial literacy
Some dialog about financial literacy in microfinance ... and a Burgess observation about the failure of a money profit metric in microfinance
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Media
The modern media oligopoly
Very few organizations ... just six ... dominate the media space in the United States.
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Financial Implosion
Pointing fingers
March 19th, 2009 ... Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate Audience Blames Washington More Than Wall Street for Financial Crisis
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Financial Implosion
What really went on in September 2008
Confusion in the Ranks - TARP Prevented Total Collapse
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Transport
Urban congestion ... urban pollution
To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
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Village Economics
Economic dynamics
This powerpoint presentation was prepared in 2006 to highlight the mechanics of economic development at the village level
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Romney's bad period
Enjoy Watching Mitt Get His A** Handed To Him? Watch Jennifer Granholm Do It
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Media
Where did Fox News come from?
Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Mitt Romney profile
A compilation of gaffes made by Mitt Romney over the past few months ... without going into the foreign policy and foreign trips space
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Big Print Brief
'Jobs Bank' to create 'Jobs Money' I
Creation of money has been used to sustain capital markets ... we need money to sustain jobs market
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Big Print Brief
'Jobs Bank' to create 'Jobs Money' II
Central Banks and Commercial Banks create money that makes profit ... we need to make money that creates jobs
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Big Print Brief
Social multipliet and funding a 'Jobs Bank'
The health of a society deteriorates when jobs are cut, and society pays inordinately
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Country ... Iran
Economic warfare ... sanctions
October 2012 ... Iran's rial hits an all-time-low against the US dollar ... The Iranian rial has fallen by 25% in one week
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Country ... USA
Rachel Maddow commentary
About October 2, 2012 ... Rachel Maddow doing a daily rant about Romney, Republicans and many issues that concern her
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Pro-Obama advertisement
Samuel L. Jackson debuts ‘Wake the F*ck Up’ pro-Obama Ad (VIDEO) ...
Samuel L. Jackson reads four-minute children's story to Obama supporters in style of popular children's book 'Go the F*ck to Sleep' in pro-Obama ad.
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RELIGION
ABOUT ISLAM ... BY A MUSLIM
'Killing the Americans?' ... The anti-Islam filmmaker or the cartoonist wouldn't be ordained by the Prophet himself, writes scholar.
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Intellectual Property
The business model is wrong
Academic paywalls mean publish and perish ... Academic publishing is structured on exclusivity, and to read them people must shell out an average of $19 per article.
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Intellectual Property
The business model is wrong
The Economics of JSTOR ... the high cost (err ... profit) in the academic research space
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Intellectual Property
An example of profit over value
LAW & DISORDER / CIVILIZATION & DISCONTENTS ...
Former Reddit co-owner arrested for excessive JSTOR downloads ... RSS co-author and former Reddit co-owner Aaron Swartz has been arrested for ...
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Intellectual Property
The money profit economy gone mad
Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No
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Education
The Khan Academy
The AJE Stream discusses education with Salman Khan, founder of the world’s most popular online learning site, the Khan Academy
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TVM Website
The material used in the website's Welcome page
This is the text content used for the Index page ... the format is sligthly different in the Welcome page
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... commentary
Rachel Maddow taking on the GOP, the Republicans and all sorts of people with a reactionary agenda
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Technology
The modern database ... amazing
Setting The Record Straight - SAP HANA v. Exadata X3
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