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The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com - 0 views

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news od

shared by tony curzon price on 26 Jun 07 - Cached
  • Each blogger is capable of bias and slander, but, taken as a group, bloggers offer the searcher after truth boundless material to chew over. Of course, the internet panders to closed minds; but so has much of the press.
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      tony curzon price on 26 Jun 07
       
      truth and blogosphere - optimism comes out of some system-level quality by which "chewing over" produces truth
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Xenophon, Works on Socrates - 0 views

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aspasia economics feminsim socrates xenophone

shared by tony curzon price on 16 Dec 07 - Cached
  • tony curzon price on 16 Dec 07
     
    "When a sheep is ailing," said Socrates, "we generally blame the shepherd, and when a horse is vicious, we generally find fault with his rider. In the case of a wife, if she receives instruction in the right way from her husband and yet does badly, perhaps she should bear the blame; but if the husband does not instruct his wife in the right way of doing things, and so finds her ignorant, should he not bear the blame himself? [12] Anyhow, Critobulus, you should tell us the truth, for we are all friends here. Is there anyone to whom you commit more affairs of importance than you commit to your wife?" "There is not." "Is there anyone with whom you talk less?" "There are few or none, I confess." [13] "And you married her when she was a mere child and had seen and heard almost nothing?" "Certainly." "Then it would be far more surprising if she understood what she should say or do than if she made mistakes." [14] "But what of the husbands who, as you say, have good wives, Socrates? Did they train them themselves?" "There's nothing like investigation. I will introduce Aspasia to you, and she will explain the whole matter to you with more knowledge than I possess. [15] I think that the wife who is a good partner in the household contributes just as much as her husband to its good; because the incomings for the most part are the result of the husband's exertions, but the outgoings are controlled mostly by the wife's dispensation. If both do their part well, the estate is increased; if they act incompetently, it is diminished. [16] If you think you want to know about other branches of knowledge, I fancy I can show you people who acquit themselves creditably in any one of them."
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Performance-pay Perplexes: Financial Page: The New Yorker - 0 views

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economics incentives

shared by tony curzon price on 14 Nov 07 - Cached
  • The havoc on Wall Street following the collapse of the subprime-mortgage market boils down to a simple truth: for years, lots of very smart people took lots of very foolish risks, betting borrowed billions on dubious mortgage derivatives, and eventually the odds caught up with them. But behind that simple truth is a more surprising one: the financial whizzes made bad decisions in part because that’s what they were paid to do. Not literally, of course. The way that hedge-fund managers and investment-bank C.E.O.s get paid is supposed to make them perform better for the investors they serve. Hedge-fund managers, for instance, typically are paid “2 and 20”: they get two per cent of total assets as a management fee, and they keep twenty per cent of their investment gains (above some agreed-upon benchmark). Letting hedge-fund managers keep a chunk of their winnings gives them an incentive to do well for their clients: in theory, they get rich only if their clients do.
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    how performance contracts lead to high risk outcomes
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ePolitix.com - Gordon Brown: Conference speech in full - 0 views

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brown

shared by tony curzon price on 24 Jun 07 - Cached
  • And let me say that commitment to international action on justice means today to prevent genocide, the world must through the U.N, urgently act in Darfur.
  • Most of all my parents taught me that each of us should live by a moral compass.It was a simple faith with a fundamental optimism.That each and every one of us has a talent.Each of us a duty to use that talent.And each of us should have the chance to develop that talent. And my parents thought we should use whatever talent we had to help people least able to help themselves. And as I grew up surrounded by books, sports, music and encouragement, I saw at school and beyond how some flourished and others, denied these opportunities, fell behind. They had talent, they had ability. But they did not have the chance to fulfil their promise. They needed someone to champion them. They needed the support of people on their side. And is not our history the story of yes, progress through the fulfilled talents, even genius, of some but, yes, also of the wasted potential of millions for too many, their talents lost and forever unfulfilled?
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      tony curzon price on 24 Jun 07
       
      Brown's parable of the talents
  • Strip away the rhetoric about globalisation and it comes down to one essential truth: You can buy raw materials from anywhere,You can borrow capital form anywhere,You can engage with technology half way across the world,But you cannot buy from elsewhere what in the global economy you need most; the skills and the creativity of all our people – and that means that in education we must aim to be number one.
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      tony curzon price on 24 Jun 07
       
      Brown's globalisation - this has the slight sense of "the last thing that still remains..." And what of physical capital ... no mention
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  • As Alan Johnson proposes, give vocational qualifications parity of esteem with academic qualifications.
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      tony curzon price on 24 Jun 07
       
      in whose gift is "parity of esteem" ... are _these_ the policies that come out of the respect agenda? surely respect comes from a complex social whole, with mixtures of truth and appearance ...
  • I believe the answer is that we the British people must be far more explicit about the common ground on which we stand, the shared values which bring us together, the habits of citizenship around which we can and must unite. Expect all who are in our country to play by our rules. 
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      tony curzon price on 24 Jun 07
       
      multiculturalism's limits
  • the active citizen, the empowered community, open enabling government.
    • tony curzon price
      tony curzon price on 24 Jun 07
       
      just as power had to be taken from special interests - code word for capital - so now it must be taken from the state
  • I want a radical shift of power from the centre.
Andrey Paxton

You Rock Dave! - 1 views

started by Andrey Paxton on 14 Nov 12 no follow-up yet
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View Contagious - 0 views

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advertising truth

shared by tony curzon price on 29 Sep 07 - Cached
  • Dove strips away the smoke and mirrors to remind us that nobody's perfect. 200,000 views on youTube in one week.
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    dove video - makes advert about advert, both distancing itself from untruthfulness but also still using all the powers of suggestion that Dove really will transform you
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Fake Steve Here, Fake Steve There - 0 views

www.iamnotfakesteve.com

truth web

shared by tony curzon price on 25 Aug 07 - Cached
  • Fake Steve Here, Fake Steve There
  • tony curzon price on 25 Aug 07
     
    fake blogs - more on the theme of how do we know what we're dealing with?
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