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Simon Johnson Interview

“The U.S. has been taken over by a financial oligarchy.”

Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. (more)

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Gar Alperovitz Interview

“The long term norm of the economy is great instability and high inequality.”

Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political-Economy at the University of Maryland and one of the founders of the University’s Democracy Collaborative. (more)

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Freefall by Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Obama administration's misguided economic policies (link). (more)

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George Soros: Open Society, the Financial Crisis, and the Way Ahead

Open Society Institute chairman and founder George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a five-part lecture (more)

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Break-up Goldman Sachs! Get Glass-Steagall Act Back! Max Keiser was Right!

“This financial system is seriously broken and its broken in a way that's going to create maximum danger and damage going forward. It has to be fixed.”

 Watch Simon Johnson's (Prof. MIT Sloan school and former Chief Economist at IMF) interview on youtube

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Schütze die Flamme--Joseph Beuys

“last speech by joseph beuys”
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Supreme Court and "The Corporation" - a long history

“The Corporation, a Canadian documentary film, though issued first in 2003, is brandnew today by the 'virtue' of Supreme Court. It is time again to ... (more)”

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Measuring Wealth: the Monetary Blind Spot

“Microfinance is increasingly seen as a major development tool. Nevertheless, providing financial services to the poor generates some unresolved ethical questions, and its effectiveness on actual poverty reduction has insufficiently been evaluated... we need to revisit the institution of money itself to generate the additional tools needed to effectively increase wealth among the poor.”

Lietaer, Bernard A. Measuring Wealth: the Monetary Blind Spot.

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“NATURAL SAVINGS”: A NEW MICROSAVINGS PRODUCT FOR INFLATIONARY ENVIRONMENTS

“HOW TO SAVE FORESTS WITH SAVINGS FOR AND BY THE POOR?”

Hudon, M. and Lietaer, B. (2006) “NATURAL SAVINGS”: A NEW MICROSAVINGS PRODUCT FOR INFLATIONARY ENVIRONMENTS. SAVINGS AND DEVELOPMENT - NO. 4 - 2006 - XXX

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Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability?

“The urgent message for economics from nature is that the monoculture of national currencies, justified on the basis of market efficiency, generates structural instability in our global financial system. Economic sustainability therefore requires diversification in types of currencies, specifically through complementary currencies ”

Lietaer, B., Ulanowicz, R., Goerner, S., and McLaren, N. Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability? Evidence and Remedies from Nature.  (more)

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