Monthly Archives: October 2009

Platforms, markets & bytes: the economic landscape of the 6th paradigm

Sean Park is minding a conference presentation. Go there and exchange ideas with him —well, if you have any.

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What Warren Buffett was saying prior to the 2008 banking, financial and economic crisis

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Inkling Markets’s Adam Siegel went fishing for clients in Wyoming.

Just kidding.

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Let’s play some Picasso.

Best Classical Music of All-Time Mozart – 7th Symphony Beethoven – Fur Elise Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 5 Johann Strauss – Radetzky Marsch Beethoven – 5th Symphony Beethoven – Ode to Joy Carl Orff – Carmina Burana (O Fortuna) … Continue reading

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How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America — Barbara Ehrenreich

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as the prospects (and pitfalls) of plans to engineer the planet’s climate system

“[Ken Caldeira] views geoengineering as a last resort, one fraught with risks and unintended consequences. What if, for example, industrialized nations decide to inject heat-reflecting dust into the stratosphere and set off a climate reaction that causes drought and famine … Continue reading

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An interesting YouTube channel you should bookmark right now

http://www.youtube.com/user/PopurlsBrown The Economics Of Abundance – Michael Masnick

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Barack Obama’s propaganda minister (National Endowment for the Arts) is asking the art community to pick an Obama policy goal, and then to promote it with their artwork.

Barack Obama uses NEA to push his agenda. National Endowment for the Arts = Obama’s Propaganda Machine

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Networks, Crowds, and Markets – Reasoning About A Highly Connected World – by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg

Networks, Crowds, and Markets – Reasoning About A Highly Connected World – by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book.pdf – Contents Chapter 1. Overview 1.1 Aspects of Networks 1.2 Central Themes and Topics Part I Graph Theory and Social Networks … Continue reading

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Barney Frank On Wall Street Executive Pay Limits.

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