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All Change – Will There Be a Revolution in Economic Thinking in the Next Few...
On 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers – then the fourth-largest investment bank on Wall Street – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A year later, the world economy was in the depths of its...
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The American Dream – O Sonho Americano
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Capitalism Collapse? – “Cash grab system cannot survive storm’”
There is barely a corner of the globe that has not been touched by the current financial meltdown. But a senior sociology scholar at Yale University thinks the crisis is far wider than the economic...
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Greece, Lehman, and the politics of Too Big To Fail
The looming second banking crisis raises the question whether banks have learned anything from the Lehman debacle only three years ago. They have indeed learned a lesson, but you may not like it. So we...
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On nous ment!: Vérités et légendes sur la crise
Vous avez du mal à comprendre pourquoi la crise a explosé en 2008 ? Vous trouvez bien difficile de savoir si elle est vraiment terminée ? Normal : du début jusqu’à la fin, au lieu de nous expliquer le...
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La crisis británica golpea a los jóvenes
Este año la matrícula universitaria costará unos 16 mil dólares y la ayuda estudiantil secundaria ha desaparecido. Así las cosas, no sorprende que los estudiantes estén engrosando las filas de la...
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The Fight of the Century
The decline in resources available to support societal complexity will generate a centrifugal force breaking up existing economic and governmental power structures everywhere. As a result there is a...
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Promoting innovation and evidence-based approaches to building resilience and...
At the end of 2011, the United Nations called for humanitarian assistance to be both scaled up and made ‘smarter’ as global emergencies continued to expand in both frequency and complexity. DFID has...
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The Economic Roots of Your Life Crisis
A life crisis, I’d say, is a crisis of human potential foregone. It’s when you know you’re not living up to your potential, but it’s frustratingly difficult to see what, if anything, can be done about...
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Ph.D.s on Food Stamps
With the economic troubles of the past few years, it’s no surprise that the number of people using food stamps is soaring. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that an average of 44 million...
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Beyond the vote: the crisis of representative democracy
Voting is meaningless when representatives are powerless in the face of greater forces. For democracy to work, we first of all need to wake up to reality. There is something profoundly wrong with our...
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Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis
The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show...
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¿Enfermos de incertidumbre? Las enfermedades psicológicas de la crisis
Con la llegada de la crisis asistimos a un escenario de pánico social que fue calando gota a gota en todos los estratos poblacionales, despertando el miedo más primigenio de la especie humana: la...
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The Crisis and a Way Forward: What We Can Learn from Occupy Wall Street
The financial crisis of 2007 has generated ubiquitous commentary; it also spurred a global grassroots uprising that began with Occupy Wall Street. This movement provided a unique analysis of the crisis...
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La fin des sociétés
Dans son dernier ouvrage « La fin des sociétés », la réflexion d’Alain Touraine prend comme point de départ la crise économique qui secoue le monde depuis désormais cinq ans. Dans ce cadre économique...
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The Economic Roots of Your Life Crisis
A life crisis, I’d say, is a crisis of human potential foregone. It’s when you know you’re not living up to your potential, but it’s frustratingly difficult to see what, if anything, can be done about...
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Promoting innovation and evidence-based approaches to building resilience and...
At the end of 2011, the United Nations called for humanitarian assistance to be both scaled up and made ‘smarter’ as global emergencies continued to expand in both frequency and complexity. DFID has...
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Crisis Responses and Management – Learning from Biological Networks
The generality of network properties allows the utilization of the ‘wisdom’ of biological systems surviving crisis events for many millions of years. Yeast protein-protein interaction network shows a...
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Are We Entering an Era of Concatenated Global Crises?
An increase in the frequency and intensity of environmental crises associated with accelerating human-induced global change is of substantial concern to policy makers. The potential impacts, especially...
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Crisis in the Eurozone
A controversial call to break up the Eurozone and stop the debt crisis. First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the world stepped in to bail out the banks. The sequel to that debacle...
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