Showing posts with label globalisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label globalisation. Show all posts
8 January 2014

Wafer thin MINT theory

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Ever since I first heard the idea of grouping together a number of countries under the heading BRIC I began to wonder what on earth w...
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5 May 2013

Inside the World Trade System: Technical

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The lengthy hiatus in posts is the result of my spending two weeks aboard a cargo ship without an Internet connection. The lack of connect...
28 April 2011

Where are you from, originally?

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The extraordinary spectacle of the most powerful man in the world having to justify his parentage is one of the clearest signs to date that ...
12 December 2010

Ideas Merchant Facing Institutional Challenge

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This has been a week of mysterious coincidences. On Wednesday I made a presentation about co-operatives to a delegation from the Technical U...
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8 July 2010

Don't Mention the Trade War

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Have you ever noticed how your German friends can't pronounce the name of their own country correctly? No doubt grown tired of us correc...
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23 January 2010

The Tripartite Hegemony

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It is clear that the problems facing the world economy have their origin in the financial system and that the curbs on bank powers proposed ...
17 July 2008

Just Use It!

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As the recession deepens, businesses will fold. They will no longer be needing the resources over which they have exerted control in an era ...
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17 June 2008

Refuge from the Global Economy

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Yesterday I was listening to Victor Jara's beautiful songs, which made the tedium of an unavoidable car journey a pleasure. For those wh...
10 June 2008

Gambling while others starve

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Whatever explanation you've heard for why food prices are rising it probably isn't the real one. Now that the housing market is stag...
4 March 2008

Mending our Global Relationships

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I was inspired by listening to Doreen Massey last week - especially by her approach to positive globalisation and her ability to make space ...
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21 February 2008

The Final Frontier

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I had the great pleasure last night of listening to Doreen Massey give a public lecture. She is an inspiring example of a public intellectua...
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11 February 2008

Food: A Matter of Life and Death

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After a week of argumentation about the rights and wrongs of the £1.99 chicken I finally entered the fray - indirectly, as it happens, when ...
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12 September 2007

Beware the Blandishments of the Tescopolist

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Capitalism is threatened by climate change and it is responding. I offer as evidence Tesco's endowment at Manchester University of a Sus...
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25 March 2007

Call for the Abolition of Wage Slavery

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The conventional mindset loves to make clear distinctions, to paint the world in terms of black and white, to establish absolute dates when ...
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9 February 2007

Globalisation comes home to roost

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Poor old Bernard Matthews. Not so bootiful as he used to be. First Jamie Oliver decimates his profits by exposing his turkey twizzlers as de...
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3 February 2007

You are what you make, not what you buy

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A famous critique of the nature of work within a market system is to be found in the writings of Karl Marx. One of his central concerns was ...