Iceland revolution. Quand les citoyens islandais réécrivent leur constitution. L’Association pour la démocratie et l’éducation locale et sociale (Adels) vous invite à une soirée – débat exceptionnelle lundi 26 Septembre · 18:00 - 20:30 à l'Institut Finlandais 60 rue des Ecoles - 75005 Paris En présence de Gudjon Mar Gudjonsson de passage en France. Entrepreneur dans le secteur des télécommunications, il a organisé en 2009 une "assemblée nationale" de 1500 personnes choisies au sein de la population islandaise et il a aussi défini, à la demande du gouvernement, la méthodologie de l'assemblée constituante islandaise. M. Seront aussi présents pour débattre : Bastien François (constitutionaliste à l’Université Paris-I et élu Europe Ecologie au conseil régional Île-de-France), et Philippe Aigrain (fondateur de Sopinspace, entreprise spécialisée dans les outils en ligne collaboratifs favorisant le débat public) puis s'engagera une série de questions - réponses avec la salle.
The relationship of materialism to debt and financial well-being: The case of Iceland’s perceived prosperity 10.1016/j.joep.2011.12.008 : Journal of Economic Psychology. Abstract In Iceland, levels of debt had risen to an unprecedented extreme in the years prior to the country’s economic collapse in October 2008. This rise occurred in the context of a consumer culture highlighting supposed psychological benefits of consumer goods. This paper reports findings from two studies, conducted during an economic boom in Iceland, examining the association of materialism and indicators of financial well-being: amount of debt, financial worries, spending tendency, money-management skills and compulsive buying. Study 11 (N = 271) showed that people who endorse materialistic values have more financial worries, worse money-management skills and greater tendency towards compulsive buying and spending.
Study 2 (N = 191) replicates the findings of Study 1 and further shows that amount of debt, including mortgage, can be directly linked to materialism, controlling for income and money-management skills. Highlights PsycINFO classification JEL classification Keywords. Pétrole. Occupy Wall Street will lay siege to U.S. greed - Paul B. Farrell. By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch And while this may seem like a local challenge to Wall Street bankers, New York City commuters and Mayor Bloomberg, the real threat is much bigger and culturally deeper: a challenge to every Senator and Representative in Washington, to their wealthy campaign donors financing their reelections, to Washington’s high-priced special interest lobbyists, to every overpaid CEO in Corporate America, to all the Super Rich on the Forbes 400 list of billionaires, to Fed Chairman Bernanke and to President Obama. Listen closely. This is not another internecine political squabble.
These revolutionaries are pushing America back to its roots. You sense they’re drafting a new Declaration of Independence, driven by the same powerful motivations as the 57 original signers who wrote: “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive … it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.” What do they really want? Not enough. Get it? Imposture du capitalisme moral, par Yvon Quiniou.
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