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Category Archives: Political Reform
My Broadband Pipe Dream, Part II: How might we get there from here?
Having set the conceptual stage for a “generative” Internet access strategy in Part I of this two-part post, I’d like dig a little deeper here into the “what” and “how.” As I said in Part I, and as suggested by … Continue reading
Which Kind of Internet Do “We the People” Want?
I believe we’re at a key crossroads in the evolution of the Internet, our economy and society as a whole. And, as I’ve discussed, I believe a combination of New Growth Theory and Modern Monetary Theory can help us choose … Continue reading
How Best to “Upgrade America?”
I just read Blair Levin’s recent “Upgrading America” speech, whose subtitle is: “Achieving a Strategic Bandwidth Advantage and a Psychology of Bandwidth Abundance To Drive High-Performance Knowledge Exchange.” As its longish subtitle (and reference to “combinatorial innovation”) suggests, Levin seems to … Continue reading
Replanting the Roots of our Republic
In an earlier post I briefly discussed efforts spearheaded by Larry Lessig to “strike at the roots” of political corruption. As I noted then, Lessig is the author of “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It.” … Continue reading
Striking at the Roots
My last post considered a proposal by Dan Kervick, a blogger at New Economic Perspectives, to more closely integrate fiscal and monetary policy, and to transition the latter from the control of a Central Bank that’s mainly responsive to the … Continue reading
Integrating Fiscal and Monetary Policy
To provide a little more background on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and its significance, I though it would be helpful to discuss some additional MMT-related material. In this post I want to focus on a recent blog post by Dan … Continue reading
New Perspectives on the Economy
Since economics is supposed to be the study of the exchange of value and (hopefully) the increase in prosperity and well-being among human beings, it will be a central thread of future discussion on this site. The general perspective I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Communication Policy, Economics, Human Evolution, Modern Monetary Theory, New Economy Movement, New Growth Theory, Political Reform
Tagged banking, Bill Black, community wealth-building, economics, evolutionary reconstruction, Gar Alperovitz, generative economy, Institute for New Economic Thinking, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, New Economic Perspectives, New Economics Institute, The Democracy Collaborative
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Empathy, Mindfulness, Dignity and Human Evolution
I just read a blog post by an old college friend of mine, Michael Gordon, who is now a professor at the University of Michigan, and whose work is increasingly focused on social enterprise and social entrepreneurship. The focus of … Continue reading
Posted in Human Evolution, Political Reform
Tagged Ashoka, Bill Drayton, dignitarianism, Google, Jeremy Rifkin, Michael Gordon, mindfulness, rankism, Robert Fuller
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Evolving Human Systems 