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• December 03, 2009
• 18:52

  Remembering Bhopal

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  From the NYTimes: This is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, an epic mess that started one night when a pesticide plant owned by the American chemical giant Union Carbide leaked a cloud of poisonous gas. Before the ...
• 18:44

  Climate Change Art

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  More here....
• 3:48

  Big Bucks in Illegal Logging

   » ‎ Economies in Cultural Perspective
  From Global Witness: A new report by Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has revealed the extent of illegal logging in the National Parks and protected areas of the SAVA Region of Madagascar. The two non-profit organizations state ...
• November 25, 2009
• 21:01

  Workers in Charge

   » ‎ Economies in Cultural Perspective
  A survey of 6 worker-owned coops.  From CNN.com (HT: Anti-Capitalism) And I want to add one more: New Belgium Brewing Company. (picture above)...
• November 20, 2009
• 5:16

  Some Justice for New Orleans, 4 Years Later

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  “No judgment, of course, will bring back the 9th Ward, which years after Katrina and Rita is still largely a ghost town, but this acknowledgment that the destruction didn’t have to happen is important.” From the AP: A landmark court ...
• November 12, 2009
• 20:39

  Too Big to Fail and ZOMBIES

   » ‎ Economies in Cultural Perspective
  From New York Magazine.  A short excerpt: “You guys get this done for me, and I’ll make sure I can take care of AIG and Merrill,” Paulson replied. “I’m a little uncomfortable talking about Merrill with John right in the ...
• 19:02

  Is The (Art) Recession Over?

   » ‎ Economies in Cultural Perspective
  Collectors are buying again, according to the BBC… Andy Warhol artwork 200 One Dollar Bills has sold in New York for $43.8m (£26.5m) – the second highest auction price for a work by the pop artist. The 1962 silk screen ...
• November 09, 2009
• 20:50

  Outsourcing Art

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  From The New Yorker: Peter Hessler writes about artists in Lishui, a city in eastern China, who are commissioned to make paintings for the foreign [tourist] market. (HT: Contexts)...
• 18:26

  What Were They Fighting For?

   » ‎ Economies in Cultural Perspective
  Interesting words from Slavoj Zizek in today’s NYTimes: When people protested Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the large majority of them did not ask for capitalism. They wanted the freedom to live their lives outside state control, to come together ...
• November 08, 2009
• 6:46

  Hungary Not Hungry for Capitalism

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  This article is not the only one I’ve read that reflects a kind of “Soviet nostalgia,” but it is definitely the most poetic… When I was a child in the 1960s, there was a photo in my history book. “Man ...
• November 07, 2009
• 5:26

  The New Gated Communities

   » ‎ Economies in Cultural Perspective
  But this time, they’re not to keep the “poor” out… Since the beginning of the year, Rio de Janeiro has been building walls around some of its favelas, the shanty towns that crowd the hills around the city. In total, ...
• September 26, 2009
• 19:24

  The Garbage Business

   » ‎ Economies in Cultural Perspective
  From the NYTimes: Exporting waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies try to minimize the costs of new environmental laws, like those here, that tax waste or require that it be recycled ...
• September 21, 2009
• 2:13

  Saving Heterodox Economics at ND

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  A new petition to save the Department of Economics and Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame: A Petition to Save and Strengthen a Liberal Arts Economics Education at Notre Dame Dean John McGreevy and the Administration at the ...
• September 18, 2009
• 4:21

  PBR and “Hip” Consumption

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  From Advertising Age: Sales of PBR are up an astounding 25% this year, according to Information Resources Inc. And while cheaper beers — a group within which PBR has long been something of a mascot — are outperforming their more ...
• September 17, 2009
• 17:49

  Update: Economics at Notre Dame

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  An article from today’s Chronicle of Higher Education.  Here are some of the highlights: “In light of the crash of the economy, you would think there would be some humility among economists, some openness to new approaches,” says Charles K. ...
• September 13, 2009
• 17:57

  Counterfeit Currency and the “Meaning” of Money

   » ‎ Economies in Cultural Perspective
  From the LA Times: In the last year, agents have recovered about $8 million in fake notes across the U.S. and $18 million, as well as fake passports, in raids in Peru, authorities say. Besides costing U.S. citizens and businesses ...
• September 11, 2009
• 23:00

  Economics at Notre Dame

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  The administration at the University of Notre Dame has announced that they plan on closing the Department of Economics and Policy Studies, a department committed to “values and socio-economic justice” and open to “alternative theories and approaches” in favor of ...
• September 06, 2009
• 19:31

  Model Beauty

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  From Paul Krugman: As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. He’s not the first to point out the “seductive” power of market models. I can’t ...
• August 31, 2009
• 21:48

  Ape Economicus?

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  From On the Human: “Nature red in tooth and claw”, “selfish genes”, and “rational actors” notwithstanding, humans are a peculiarly other-regarding, “pro-social” species. We routinely share and behave in ways that benefit others and find it pleasurable to do so. ...
• 3:49

  Billions in Body Parts

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  From Der Spiegel: The German company Tutogen’s business in body parts is as secretive as it is lucrative.  It extracts bones from corpses in Ukraine to manufacture medical products, as part of a global market worth billions that is centered ...
• August 29, 2009
• 3:17

  New Orleans Since Katrina

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  Today marks four years since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and the failed levees in New Orleans, coupled with inadequate – if not downright shameful – responses from the city, state, and federal governments led to one of the ...