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You won’t learn about it in business school, hear about it from Wall Street, or see it in Palo Alto. But if you spend time in Bushwick, Brooklyn, or on Rivington Street in Manhattan, you just might detect the outlines of an emerging “indie” capitalism. This new form of capitalism is not just about conventional startups and technology and venture capitalists. If you add up all the trends under way today, I believe we are beginning to see the start of something original, and perhaps wonderful. It may prove to be the economic and social antidote to the failed financial capitalism and crony capitalism that no longer delivers economic value in terms of jobs, income, and taxes to the people of this country. It’s too early to define the exact shape of this latest iteration of capitalism, but what indie capitalism appears to have is a distinct sensibility.
4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent | Co.Design
Slow Money: Investment strategies appropriate to the realities of the 21st century - Slow Money
Thousands of Americans have begun affirming a new direction for the economy. It’s called Slow Money. Inspired by the vision of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing As If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered , published in 2009, the Slow Money Alliance is bringing people together around a new conversation about money that is too fast, about finance that is disconnected from people and place, about how we can begin fixing our economy from the ground up... starting with food. “Combine poisonous factory-farm tomatoes with disgraced investment banker Bernard Madoff. Throw in a stock market disaster.
There are actually two recessions: The first is the cyclical one, the one that inevitably comes and then inevitably goes. There's plenty of evidence that intervention can shorten it, and also indications that overdoing a response to it is a waste or even harmful.
Seth's Blog: The forever recession (and the coming revolution)
Finansverdens stemmer Senest opdateret: 26. oktober 2011 | information.dk
»Vi har jo fået en demokratisk situation, hvor vi vælger folk, der skal fortælle markedet, hvordan det skal opføre sig, men som i stigende grad bare skal indrette sig efter markedet.« Sådan lød rationalet, da den kendte hollandske antropolog Joris Luyendijk satte sig for at lave et antropologisk studie af finansfolkene i London City, det ene af Vestens to finanscentre.Så hvorfor i al verden ønsker en hollandsk antropolog at interviewe bankfolk fra Londons finansdistrikt? Det var klart den første ting, bankfolkene forlangte at få at vide, før de overhovedet ville overveje at mødes med mig i hemmelighed. Via e-mail forsøgte jeg at forklare: »Hør her, for tiden hader alle jer. Hader I også jer selv? Nej, vel?
Finansfolk: en antropologisk undersøgelse | information.dk
BBC News - Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom?
The circle below shows the gross external, or foreign, debt of some of the main players in the eurozone as well as other big world economies. The arrows show how much money is owed by each country to banks in other nations. The arrows point from the debtor to the creditor and are proportional to the money owed as of the end of June 2011. The colours attributed to countries are a rough guide to how much trouble each economy is in.
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist
AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies , mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable. The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere ( see photo ).
C. K. Prahalad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad ( Tamil : கோயம்புத்தூர் கிருஷ்ணராவ் ப்ரஹலாத் ) (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010) [ 1 ] was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan . Prahalad was the ninth of eleven children born in 1941 in to a Kannada speaking family in Coimbatore , Tamil Nadu . His father was a well-known Sanskrit scholar and judge in Chennai [ citation needed ] .Home | ImpactAssets
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