168. Cartoons and thought
Posted in Art on Jul 20th, 2009
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Monthly Archive for July, 2009
167. Excluded progessives.
Posted in Financial system on Jul 20th, 2009
Krugman responding, so now what do we do? But the larger story is the absence of a progressive-economist wing. A lot of people supported Obama over Clinton in the primaries because they thought Clinton would bring back the Rubin team; and what Obama has done is … bring back the Rubin team. Even the advisory [...]
166. challenge
Posted in challenges on Jul 20th, 2009
Doug North, whom I’ve been reading traps us in a mechanical vocabulary, but steps out when he challenges us. to improve the human prospect we must understand the sources of human decision making. That is a necessary condition for human survival. Understanding the process of economic change, 2005 It might be good to know what [...]
165. self, ecnomy and other
Posted in Community, GardenWorld, essays on Jul 19th, 2009
If we think of humans and the environment co-evolving, and our human capacities being what they are because of a more or less fit to the environment, then there are no meanings independent of us – except for how other beings themselves interpret the universe from their place in it. But that is conjecture on [...]
164. Garden of Eden and social contract theory
Posted in GardenWorld, essays on Jul 19th, 2009
Locke, Hobbes and others had thrown the church out of its central place in the comos and society. the result was a lack of an “origins” story. the Garden of Eden had all of us descended from the same parents, hence, related in the body of god or christ, and deriving rights and place from [...]
163. The Joblessness Threat
Posted in Financial system on Jul 19th, 2009
Sond logic. The alernative logic is basically the same but ignores unemployment, claiing that all is well ecause the core has resumed action but at a lower total level, the difference being that the core has the same cash flow while the difference is paid for by unemployment. As Roubini goes on to show, this [...]
162. temperature summary
Posted in Overview, sustainability on Jul 18th, 2009
This too is very good. Global warming is changing the world we know and love. But in fact, the Earth’s climate has changed many times – especially in the last two million years, when a series of ice ages has wreaked havoc worldwide. We need to understand the past to have any chance of understanding [...]
161. earth : a good summary
Posted in GardenWorld, Overview, sustainability on Jul 18th, 2009
The Earth – For Physicists John Baez June 26, 2009 via earth .
160. Bush pushed home ownership in order to…
Posted in Financial system on Jul 18th, 2009
As I recall, Rove had the idea that home ownership made people more conservative and more likeley to vote Republican, hence upping home ownership would help support a Republican majority. “We can put light where there’s darkness, and hope where there’s despondency in this country. And part of it is working together as a nation [...]
159. profit
Posted in Financial system on Jul 17th, 2009
and Goldman, famously, made a lot of money selling securities backed by subprime mortgages — then made a lot more money by selling mortgage-backed securities short, just before their value crashed. All of this was perfectly legal, but the net effect was that Goldman made profits by playing the rest of us for suckers. via [...]