Notre beau rêve européen est-il utilisé pour affaiblir la démocratie AGENDA :- 20/2/2011, Six-Fours, avec Culture Libre : "le tirage au sort comme bombe politiquement durable contre l'oligarchie". Vidéo.- 26/2/2011, Paris, Repaire de Là-bas si j'y suis (20e), "Centralité du tirage au sort dans une vraie démocratie". Enregistrement mp3.- 9/4/2011, Paris, Repaire de Là-bas si j'y suis (20e), "L'enjeu de la souveraineté monétaire". - 24/4/2011, Marseille : "1. L'enjeu de la création monétaire" (1 h), puis "2. le tirage au sort comme bombe politiquement durable contre l'oligarchie" (1 h 30). Vidéo.- 29/4/2011, Nice.
Accelerated Learning Would Add Trillions of Dollars in Wealth Political discussion today is dominated by a pessimistic tone about government deficits, taxes, and our aging population. But, surprising as it may seem, a drastic overhaul of the nation’s education system could fix many of our problems. Such changes would create a variety of benefits: decreased government spending; more sustainable entitlement programs; greater equality; and a better-disciplined younger generation; not to mention an end to the mumbo jumbo that dominates academia and policy debates today. Some much-debated solutions to our country’s problems include increasing the retirement age, raising taxes, diminishing Social Security benefits and other entitlements, and attracting qualified immigrants. There are at least 16 million youngsters enrolled in post-secondary education, with approximately 4 million graduating every year. Assume that after graduation the average salary would be just $20,000 and remain there. The indirect impacts may be as significant. How did J.D.
[Claude GUILLON] Make Drug Use Pay Its Own Way: Laurence Kotlikoff, Glenn Loury In a far-off land called I’m Right, You’re Wrong, a fierce drug-legalization debate is raging. Half the people, libertarians, say drug use should be legal. The other half, moral purists, insist it shouldn’t. They disagree even on what to call it when those who buy or sell drugs are led off to jail. The libertarians call this a form of taxation -- specifically, a tax on the time of the buyer and seller. On this much everybody can agree: non-violent buyers and sellers are wasting a lot of time in jail. Let’s say everyone agrees to drop the unwinnable legalization argument and to do something useful: switch to levying penalties in dollars rather than in time. The penalties should equal the difference between the gross price paid by buyers, including the dollar value of their lost time, and the net price received by sellers, after subtracting the dollar value of their lost time. Filled Jails This question applies in spades to the U.S. Huge Cost The cost of putting so many people away is huge.
Tim Blair Why Is Planet Earth On Life Support? Cosmic Convergence, ContributorWaking Times When the biosphere itself is on life support, we have some very serious problems down here, don’t we? Perhaps the following excerpt ought to be seriously considered when probing the true causes of Earth’s predicament. “Every civilization is built on a foundation of core spiritual beliefs, predominant religious traditions and accepted philosophical principles. The very blueprint of the society will reflect the integrity and soundness of those belief systems and religious faiths. What were those philosophical ideals and religious beliefs that set the stage for so much destruction to the biosphere? Where do we find the philosophical roots of this ‘revolution’ … in what countries … in which cultures … dominated by which religious traditions? What is the primary culture of those who would be “king of the realm”, and why was their language chosen to be lexicon of imperialism, of domination, of global control?
Home | Center for Inquiry Paradox of value An image of water, a commodity that is essential to life. In the paradox of value, it is an apparent contradiction that it is cheaper than diamonds, despite diamonds not having such an importance to life. Labor theory of value[edit] In a passage of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, he discusses the concepts of value in use and value in exchange, and notices how they tend to differ: What are the rules which men naturally observe in exchanging them [goods] for money or for one another, I shall now proceed to examine. These rules determine what may be called the relative or exchangeable value of goods. Furthermore, he explained the value in exchange as being determined by labor: The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.[4] Hence, Smith denied a necessary relationship between price and utility. Marginalism[edit] Main article: Marginalism Efficiency model[edit]
Paradox of hedonism The paradox of hedonism, also called the pleasure paradox, is a concept in ethics that focuses upon pleasure and happiness as strange phenomena that do not adhere to normal principles. The philosopher Henry Sidgwick was first to note in The Methods of Ethics that the paradox of hedonism is that pleasure cannot be acquired directly, it can only be acquired indirectly.[1] Overview[edit] It is often said that we fail to attain pleasures if we deliberately seek them. This has been described variously, by many: John Stuart Mill, the utilitarian philosopher, in his autobiography: But I now thought that this end [one's happiness] was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning: Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. What is good? Poet and satirist Edward Young: