Anthony Judge. Anthony Judge Anthony Judge, (Port Said, 21 January 1940) is mainly known for his career at the Union of International Associations (UIA), where he has been Director of Communications and Research, as well as Assistant Secretary-General.[1] He was responsible at the UIA for the development of interlinked databases and for publications based on those databases, mainly the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, the Yearbook of International Organizations, and the International Congress Calendar.
Judge has also personally authored a collection of over 1,600 documents of relevance to governance and strategy-making. All these papers are freely available on his personal website Laetus in Praesens.[2] Now retired from the UIA, he is continuing his research within the context of an initiative called Union of Imaginable Associations.[3] Early life[edit] Anthony John Nesbitt (Tony) Judge, an Australian national, was born in Port Said, Egypt, in 1940. Career[edit] Writings[edit] We Are Running Out of Time To Build A Better World. Sometimes people ask me why I get so excited about the kind of stuff that I talk about here.
It seems that most people simply accept the hardship, inequity, and unfairness of the world as if it were a law of nature. “Your life is pretty good, why do you get so worked up about this stuff?” A simple question, but one which probes surprisingly deep into my beliefs about the world and its future. "Pourquoi les pauvres prennent-ils sans cesse des décisions stupides?" Par: Caroline Albert 17/12/13 - 13h40 © photo news.
Why ? : Un nouveau modèle pour la société du XXIe siècle. There are at least four reasons : If the one hundred consortiums, or multinationals, which lead the economic game around the globe organize themselves in networks to accomplish their objectives, why don’t citizens do the same thing ? The political classes don’t manage anything but the short-term - no more than four years ahead at any given time ; they have abandoned anything resembling long-term planning. If the World only had 100 People - [INFOGRAPHIC] Labour power. Labour power (in German: Arbeitskraft; in French: force de travail) is a crucial concept used by Karl Marx in his critique of capitalist political economy.
Marx distinguished between the capacity to do work, labour power, from the physical act of working, labour.[1] Labour power exists in any kind of society, but on what terms it is traded or combined with means of production to produce goods and services has historically varied greatly. Under capitalism, according to Marx, the productive powers of labour appear as the creative power of capital. Indeed "labour power at work" becomes a component of capital, it functions as working capital. Work becomes just work, workers become an abstract labour force, and the control over work becomes mainly a management prerogative. 7 Ways That Generosity Can Lead To Success. Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Author Affiliations Edited* by Richard E.
Nisbett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, and approved January 26, 2012 (received for review November 8, 2011) Abstract Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals.
Footnotes Author contributions: P.K.P., D.M.S., S.C., and D.K. designed research; P.K.P. and D.M.S. performed research; P.K.P. analyzed data; and P.K.P., D.M.S., S.C., R.M. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? By Art Streiber Art Streiber. Humanrights. Avaaz 2014 priority Setting. The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats - Nick Hanauer - POLITICO Magazine. Value theory. Value theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree persons value things; whether the object of valuing is a person, idea, object, or anything else.
This investigation began in ancient philosophy, where it is called axiology or ethics. Early philosophical investigations sought to understand good and evil and the concept of "the good". Today much of value theory is scientifically empirical, recording what people do value and attempting to understand why they value it in the context of psychology, sociology, and economics.[1] At the general level, there is a difference between moral and natural goods. Top five regrets of the dying. There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps.
A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. L’objectif d’un monde équitable et sans pauvreté est à notre portée — Jim Yong Kim, président du Groupe de la Banque mondiale. Search for Common Ground International Conflict Transformation Resolution, Peacebuilding. On Revolution: The Right to Smash the State, by Pierre Lemieux. Why are libertarians, especially natural-rights libertarians, so kind to tyrants?
After all, if you're living under a government that continuously violates your inherent and unalienable rights, why should you go along with it? Reciprocity (social and political philosophy) Child Hunger Infographic. Click here to share this Infographic on your website.
2012 Global Hunger Index. Inequity aversion. Inequity aversion (IA) is the preference for fairness and resistance to incidental inequalities.[1] The social sciences that study inequity aversion include sociology, economics, psychology, anthropology, and ethology.
Human studies[edit] IA research on humans mostly occurs in the discipline of economics though it is also studied in sociology. Research on IA began in 1978 when studies suggested that humans are sensitive to inequities in favor of as well as those against them, and that some people attempt overcompensation when they feel "guilty" or unhappy to have received an undeserved reward.[2] Social inclusion and exclusion: effects on decision-making and the brain. Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk. Corporate psychopathy... Freins au développement. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Les théories sur les freins au développement économique sont nombreuses, diverses et leur audience a évolué avec le temps. Cette question porte également une importante charge émotionnelle, touchant à la fois aux modèles politiques, à des questions historiques sensibles (la colonisation) et aux susceptibilités nationales (de la question de la souveraineté nationale à celle de l'adéquation des traditions et mentalité d'un pays avec le développement économique).
L'héritage du colonialisme[modifier | modifier le code] La répartition géographique des pays développés et en développement coïncide en grande partie avec le découpage : pays colonisateurs et colonisés avant la première révolution industrielle, d'une part ;pays colonisés entre la révolution industrielle et la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale d'autre part. Le pivot du développement a été l'invention de la locomotive à vapeur à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. THE CORPORATION [6/23] The Pathology of Commerce. Human extinction. Human extinction is the hypothesized end of the human species. Various scenarios have been discussed in science, popular culture and religion (see End time). The scope of this article is existential risks. The Biophilia Hypothesis. The Biophilia Hypothesis edited by Stephen R. Kellert and Edward O. Wilson (Island Press) Biophilia hypothesis.
Boiling frog. Théorème du singe. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Le théorème du singe est un exemple d'« histoire enseignement », une historiette présentée sur le mode narratif, non nécessairement véridique, dont la morale permet d'enseigner ou d'expliciter un phénomène. Ici, le théorème du singe est utilisé pour mettre en valeur le fonctionnement du conditionnement mental. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Astonishing picture of Earth compared to all its water and air. Post scarcity. La fin programmée de la civilisation du gâchis. Réflection faite. De quoi est fait notre avenir? Quel avenir pour notre civilisation? Dates d'puisement des ressources naturelles de notre planète. Nous vivons depuis longtemps sur la Terre, une accueillante petite planète d'un système stellaire parmi des milliards de milliards d'autres.
Dans un univers qui vient de rien (on parle de fluctuation du vide) et qui a explosé il y a 13,7 milliards d'années, d'après notre dernière datation. Nous en avons conscience et nous nous posons des questions essentielles. Qu'est-ce que la vie ? Est-elle extrêmement répandue dans notre galaxie et dans les cent milliards d'autres, répondant à des lois chimiques universelles ou bien est-ce un phénomène rarissime au point que la Terre soit finalement une exception dans l'univers, l'héritière d'une somme incalculable de hasards tous aussi improbables les uns que les autres ?
The-Best-That-Money-Cant-Buy.pdf. A Big Project. Scarcity. Map of the global distribution of economic and physical water scarcity as of 2006 Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs. Global Wealth Inequality - What you never knew you never knew.