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Peony study #2, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.

Thomas Friedman’s essay in today’s NY Times, Anxious in America, is a good first step indictment of the failure of the Cold War world view to solve our 21st century problems. It should be no surprise that a world view that despises the role of government, except, curiously, when it comes to spying on […]

How do we define an “economics” that would be appropriate for spaceship earth? Is the current Chicago school of economic theory, as embraced by Senator Obama, the best we can do? It has had a long run. Has it gotten us to where we want to be? Can it get us to where […]

Could a President Obama set us free?
What is the “The Trap“?
It is a three part film by Adam Curtis, broadcast by the BBC in March 2007.
Curtis’s narration concludes with the observation that the game theory/free market model is now undergoing interrogation by economists who suspect a more irrational model of behaviour is appropriate and useful. […]

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