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| | dissidentvoice.org
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| | As an intended outcome of neoliberal doctrine and a natural stage of capitalist development, global financialization constructs a borderless nexus of power in which debt and austerity fuels a cultural, political and economic landscape bound to enduring structures of domination, and creates unprecedented wealth through the accumulation of suffering. ***** According to economist Richard Wolff,
| | acoup.blog
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| | This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever...
| | pseudoerasmus.com
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| | An elaboration on Ricardo Hausmann's article "The Education Myth" arguing that education is an overrated tool of economic development. This post also responds to a criticism of Hausmann's views which appearedatthe Spanish group blog Politikon; and also discusses whether developing countries really can raise scores on achievement tests. [Edit: This blogpost has now been translated...
| | qualiacomputing.com
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| by Mike Johnson The following is my considered evaluation of the Foundational Research Institute, circa July 2017. I discuss its goal, where I foresee things going wrong with how it defines suffering, and what it could do to avoid these problems. TL;DR version: functionalism ("consciousness is the sum-total of the functional properties of our brains")...