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Immanuel Wallerstein on the end of Capitalism
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Opera Unite
Opera Unite allows you to easily share your data: photos, music, notes and other files. You can even run chat rooms and host entire Web sites with Opera Unite. It puts the power of a Web server in your browser, giving you greater privacy and flexibility than other online services.
Scarcity – Does it Prove Intellectual Property is Unjustified? « State of Innovation
A number of scholars have suggested that the logical basis for tangible property rights is scarcity. Property rights efficiently allocate these resources and avoid conflicts between competing rights of individuals. These scholars argue that ideas and invention are not subject to scarcity and therefore intellectual property rights should not exist. These arguments seem to be particularly prevalent among Libertarians, including the Cato Institute and Von Mises Institute, and the open source community.
Scarcity and Intellectual Property: Empirical Evidence of Adoption/Distribution of Technology « State of Innovation
Advocates of the scarcity theory of property are correct that two people can understand the same idea (calculus) without diminishing the supply of the idea. However, this is not the same thing as both people being the inventor of or discover of the idea. Just because I understand calculus does not make me the discoverer of calculus any more than understanding how a steam engine works makes me the inventor of the steam engine.
Deep Conscious Capitalism > Transforming Currency > Mindful System Change > Buddha Way: Is Sustainability Possible Without Sustainable Currency?
Here are two books that are addressing unsustainability of Capitalism as it functions now. Mindful Economics by Joel M and Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth by David Korten.
Deep Conscious Capitalism > Transforming Currency > Buddha Way: Restoring the Spirit of Currency: Loving Kindness
Just wanted to share with my readers a soul infused book Money is Love: Returning to the Sacred Origin of Money by Barbara Wilder.
Buddha Way: Tao of Sacred Currency & Sacred Commerce
Sacred Commerce reverses the common assumption that business and spirituality are mutually opposed, and instead looks at business as a path of destiny. Your professional and business activities need not be divorced from your “regular” or “family” life. The notion of capitalism infused with the sacred expands the notion of profit with the concept and the reality of the fourth bottom line. Sacred Commerce advances the idea that commerce can be a vehicle to raise consciousness as well as a path towards Self-realization
Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity
Opera is attempting to take advantage of the rise of social networking (the verb) and bake it into the browser, as a personal extension to one’s computing experience. They accomplish this by embedding what amounts to a web server in the browser, and making it possible to share files, music and photos and to post notes or chat directly with your friends
Basic income - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A basic income is a proposed system[1] of social security, that periodically provides each citizen with a sum of money that is sufficient to live on. Except for citizenship, a basic income is entirely unconditional. Furthermore, there is no means test; the richest as well as the poorest citizens would receive it.
The Free Liberal: Economic Security for All: The Basic Income Guarantee
Richard Nixon presented a guaranteed income plan in 1969, and it passed in the House of Representatives with two-thirds of the vote. In the Senate, however, moderate supporters - Democrats and Republicans - were defeated by the combined votes of extreme conservatives who opposed any aid to the poor and extreme liberals who wanted more generous benefits. (Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the plan’s author, described it, its popular support, and the congressional debates and votes in a 1973 book, The Politics of a Guaranteed Income.)
Feminism and Basic Income Revisited — Crooked Timber
We’ve had some discussions on the desirability of a basic income from a feminist perspective here before (here and here). So I thought I would mention that about a month ago a special issue of Basic Income Studies was published which addresses precisely the question whether, all things considered, feminists should endorse a basic income. All authors answered this question with (relatively) affluent societies in mind; so the question still need to be answered for developing countries.
InsightCCED.org - California Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard by County
The Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard (Self-Sufficiency Standard) measures how much income is needed for a family of a certain composition living in a particular county to adequately meet its minimal basic needs. It is based on the costs families face on a daily basis – housing, food, child care, out-of-pocket medical expenses, transportation, and other necessary spending – and provides a complete picture of what it takes for families to make ends meet. In contrast, the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) , which was developed in the early 1960’s and is used to determine income eligibility for many public programs, is based on the outdated assumption that food represents one-third of a family’s budget
About Coredem
The sharing of knowledge and exchange of experience born from action, the selection of relevant information to achieve social change, are all an integral part of the conditions of democracy. This is what is at stake for the Confederation of resources for global democracy, that has developed information-sharing tools: a search engine (scrutari) and a wiki (wikicoredem) to jointly work on key ideas.
Global governance - Coredem
In response to the acceleration of interdependencies on a worldwide scale, both between human societies and between humanity and the biosphere, world governance defines the elaboration of regulations on the same global scale.
Global Governance: The Battle Over Planetary Power.
“Localization is not a philosophy of isolationism, but of integrated decentralization in which strong local institutions from the base, with national and regional and international institutions – governmental as well as non-governmental – networking across the hemispheres, horizontally, as well as from local to global, vertically (p.160).”

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