The Dead Are Wealthier Than the Living: Capital in the 21st Century - Pacific Standard:... - 0 views
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you needed at least 20 to 30 times the income of the average person, and the most lucrative professions paid only half that
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Consequently, “society” (i.e., the rich) consisted almost entirely of rentiers living off inherited wealth
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In recent memory, the way to get rich has been to do it yourself
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just in case we get too caught up in determining incomes, disrupting private capital and inheritance needs to be on the agenda. Private goods tend to eventually become public goods (paid a royalty for paper lately?) but the rate at which private goods become public needs to increase (patent reform, inheritance tax etc)
Dynamics for the Math Challenged - Institute for Dynamic Economic Analysis - 1 views
The New Normal in Funding University Science | Issues in Science and Technology - 1 views
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Government funding for academic research will remain limited, and competition for grants will remain high. Broad adjustments will be needed
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he sequester simply makes acute a chronic condition that has been getting worse for years.
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the federal budget sequester
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What do we need corporations for and how does Valve's management structure fit into tod... - 0 views
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Valve’s management model; one in which there are no bosses, no delegation, no commands, no attempt by anyone to tell someone what to do
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Every social order, including that of ants and bees, must allocate its scarce resources between different productive activities and processes, as well as establish patterns of distribution among individuals and groups of output collectively produced.
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the allocation of resources, as well as the distribution of the produce, is based on a decentralised mechanism functioning by means of price signals:
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Engaging For the Commons - Global Pull Platform - Helene Finidori - 0 views
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"activating" human agency and political will and addressing the root causes for power unbalance and resistance to change is at the heart of tomorrow's paradigm shift.
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action-oriented strategy and process methodology for generating engagement, accountability and outcomes in the political, economic, social and environmental spheres, which may contribute to enable this activation.
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empowering individuals and communities, nurturing public wisdom
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e-Democracy - 1 views
ECC2013 - P2P Foundation - 0 views
Comparative study technology incubators in Quebec and abroad - 6. Evaluation ... - 0 views
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evaluation of Inno-centre and trends in incubation.
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Evaluation of Inno-centre 6.4.1 How does Inno-centre's business model compare with the business models of comparable incubators in Canada and outside Canada?
P2P Economy: The next great economic age - 0 views
Is it time to change the way we work? | What Would The Internet Do? - 2 views
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company culture
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how important some values are for them to prosper and generate value
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We are seeing some organization being more successful in creating a culture than others
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The Ingenesist Project - 4 views
NSERC - Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grants - 0 views
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Objectives The Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grants are intended to give companies that operate from a Canadian base access to the unique knowledge, expertise, and educational resources available at Canadian postsecondary institutions and to train students in essential technical skills required by industry. The mutually beneficial collaborations are expected to result in industrial and/or economic benefits to Canada.
Inequality: Why egalitarian societies died out - opinion - 30 July 2012 - New Scientist - 0 views
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FOR 5000 years, humans have grown accustomed to living in societies dominated by the privileged few. But it wasn't always this way. For tens of thousands of years, egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies were widespread. And as a large body of anthropological research shows, long before we organised ourselves into hierarchies of wealth, social status and power, these groups rigorously enforced norms that prevented any individual or group from acquiring more status, authority or resources than others.*
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How, then, did we arrive in the age of institutionalised inequality? That has been debated for centuries. Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau reasoned in 1754 that inequality was rooted in the introduction of private property. In the mid-19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels focused on capitalism and its relation to class struggle. By the late 19th century, social Darwinists claimed that a society split along class lines reflected the natural order of things - as British philosopher Herbert Spencer put it, "the survival of the fittest". (Even into the 1980s there were some anthropologists who held this to be true - arguing that dictators' success was purely Darwinian, providing estimates of the large numbers of offspring sired by the rulers of various despotic societies as support.)
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But by the mid-20th century a new theory began to dominate. Anthropologists including Julian Steward, Leslie White and Robert Carneiro offered slightly different versions of the following story: population growth meant we needed more food, so we turned to agriculture, which led to surplus and the need for managers and specialised roles, which in turn led to corresponding social classes.
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Sustainable Local Economic Development - 3 views
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