Among the Tartars, as among all other nations of shepherds, who are generally ignorant of the use of money, cattle are the instruments of commerce and the measures of value
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YouTube - Jeff Howe - Crowdsourcing - 0 views
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very cool video to meet the author. I'm picking up the book from the library. I'll post this video and hopefully a book review within a week.
Smith: Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 1 | Library of Economics and Liberty - 2 views
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That so interesting that cattle became the measure of money and wealth. It seems that for something to be money it has to be able to come in large quantities, not have much difference between one to another, and carry a consistent value.
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This notion of a Gold or currency base stands so consistent that it is hard for us today to break away and have a purely digital or credit economy. But ever so slowly we are getting there.
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When those countries became commercial, the merchants found this prohibition, upon many occasions, extremely inconvenient. They could frequently buy more advantageously with gold and silver than with any other commodity the foreign goods which they wanted, either to import into their own, or to carry to some other foreign country. They remonstrated, therefore, against this prohibition as hurtful to trade.
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This principle of protectionism holds true today and is still argued about by growing economies. Not so commonly with gold but with all different types of key commodities.
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Bowditch Online - 1 views
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The American Practical Navigator Great stuff, if you've ever had an inkling of an interest in sailing, oceans, weather, etc! Read the Juvinile Fiction book, "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" to understand what this is all about - an old neighbor (a Navy Submariner) told me that this book is part of the standard library on every Navy vessel! VERY interesting browsing, this!
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Cool stuff that goes with our selected book!
The Open Library Blog - 0 views
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the blog for the last site I bookmarked. Makes some interesting reading.
About Us (Open Library) - 0 views
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This is an open source wiki-like record of (eventually) all books ever published. I stumbled across it while looking for information about a book for another class. Interesting.
Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace | Library of Economics and Liberty - 1 views
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This is an interesting book... especially because it was written between two world wars.
John Maynard Keynes: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and L... - 0 views
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Contrary to some of his critics’ assertions, Keynes was a relatively strong advocate of free markets. It was Keynes, not adam smith, who said, “There is no objection to be raised against the classical analysis of the manner in which private self-interest will determine what in particular is produced, in what proportions the factors of production will be combined to produce it, and how the value of the final product will be distributed between them.”
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Economic Encyclopedia on John Maynard Keynes
Reaganomics, by William A. Niskanen: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of... - 0 views
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Reaganomics" was the most serious attempt to change the course of U.S. economic policy of any administration since the New Deal.
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These major policy changes, in turn, were expected to increase saving and investment, increase economic growth, balance the budget, restore healthy financial markets, and reduce inflation and interest rates.
FutureQuake Online - 0 views
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Dr. Future interviews famous people, including Alvin Toffler. Check "past shows" and you'll find a library of 5 years of AM recordings.
2012 Horizon Report | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views
Capitalism - 1 views
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Gives a good, detailed yet brief description of the history and emergence of capitalism.
Op-Ed Playlist - Video Library - The New York Times - 0 views
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Course content quality vs. course content quantity. Remember AP classes? I loved them! This is a new perspective.
The concise encyclopedia of economics ADAM SMITH - 1 views
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i didn't know much about Adam Smith before this class. This is a good informative site.
Emmanuel Levinas - Philosopher - Biography - 0 views
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"the Other" concept was originally created by Levinas.
Scholarly Communications @ Duke » What is Open Science? - 1 views
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The spirit of these principles is that there should be transparency to the methods, observations, data collection, data access, communication, collaboration and research tools. Instead of limiting the sharing of the practice of science to publication of selected results, the entire scientific process should be exposed to potential users, collaborators and extenders of the work.
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Good short blog on some applications of using Open Science.
Anthropological history of YouTube - 0 views
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Presented at the Library of Congress by a professor from Kansas State. It is almost an hour long, but a great talk! He talks about the impact of YouTube on society and culture and how revolutionizing it and Web 2.0 has been.
Learning in the Light of Faith - 0 views
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When I was just out of graduate school, I attended my first meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. A highlight was a special event arranged by the conference organizers: the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had been invited to speak to us.
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Hour after hour he wrote down the stories he found in books in the university library about people protesting the invention of things like machines to spin thread and to weave cloth, steam-powered trains, automobiles, airplanes, etc. All of these advances were perceived by the general public either to be physically dangerous or to be a threat to the livelihoods of workers in trades that were about to be destroyed by these advances.
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when he started to write science fiction, he remembered all of this work he had done. So while his fellow writers were all rhapsodizing about the thrill of rockets and space travel (long before such things were possible), he wrote a story about how the local populace showed up at the launch site with torches and pitchforks in opposition to space travel. Years later, when rockets and travel outside of the earth’s atmosphere became possible, there were protests, and many of Mr. Asimov’s colleagues were astounded that he had predicted so far in advance that this would occur.
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Great Devotional Talk by Ross Spencer. Includes a great reference to "Future Shock".