Posts Tagged ‘economy’
By Cultural Shifts — January 12th, 2008
The Financial Times is reporting that the US may lose it’s triple-A credit rating due to the nation’s rising healthcare and social security spending. The change would be the first since 1917.
Of course, FT goes on to contend that the triple-A rating doesn’t …
By D. T. Cochrane — January 8th, 2008
On January 8, the Toronto Star featured on its editorial page a commentary by Joseph Stiglitz. The former chief economist of the World Bank is vaguely predicting stagflation - stagnation plus inflation - and expressing his concern about how this will affect workers and …
By Cultural Shifts — January 4th, 2008
Saul Williams’ most recent album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, has been released online in a high-bitrate mp3 format, giving consumers the choice of downloading the album for free, or paying 5$ for it. Which would you …
By D. T. Cochrane — January 4th, 2008
Although a peak and decline in oil production is a geological certainty, we should question whether it is actually occurring right now. The supply of oil within the global market depends on much more than the geological realities of production.
By Yiu Fai Chow — December 4th, 2007
Allow me to blame the city of Hong Kong. I was born and grew up in Hong Kong. But for the last 15 years, I have been living in the Netherlands, although I am commuting between the two localities pretty frequently. The last time I …
By David Cavett-Goodwin — December 3rd, 2007
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a major buzzword within academic circles, politics, activist groups, and the business community. There are many definitions of CSR which emphasize different areas, but the most contemporary and most applicable to the majority cases, is defined by the World Bank …
By Cultural Shifts — December 1st, 2007
Courtesy of OSDir
Richard Stallman is one of the founders of the Free Software Movement and lead developer of the GNU Operating System. His book is ‘Free Software, Free Society’.
JP: Can you first of all explain the “Free Software Movement’.
RMS: The basic idea of …
By mejuan — November 30th, 2007
Trickle Down Economics
By Anna Torgerson — November 30th, 2007
Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.
By Christine Hughes — November 30th, 2007
The Convention to Protect All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families has been heralded as a significant international achievement in the protection of migrant workers. Antoine Pecoud and Paul de Guchteneire assert that it represents “the most comprehensive international treaty protecting migrants’ rights …
By Elise Skinner — November 30th, 2007
Eighteenth century London was home to the gin craze, a chapter in English history that marked the unprecedented mass consumption of this newly developed spirit. This paper traces the development of this complex urban phenomenon and examines how Parliamentarians came to attribute many of the …
By Cultural Shifts — November 25th, 2007
This past Friday (November 23rd) was Buy Nothing Day. While I don’t think it’s effective at curbing spending, I do think that it has its place in the campaign to raise awareness about over-consumption. I can definitely enjoy and appreciate Reverend Billy and …
By Scott and Pat Thompson — November 24th, 2007
USA & Africa: Slave Trade
By Huma and Evoke, circa 2004.
Mural on concrete.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
By Matthew Prime — November 24th, 2007
I. Background
Across the globe, the growing dominance of trade has enveloped countries, both developed and developing, into asserting whatever advantages they might boast so as to remain globally competitive. This phenomenon is best described by the term ‘globalization’. While the uses of the term …
By Ben Walker — November 19th, 2007
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