France says farewell to the Minitel – the little box that connected a country Iceland banking collapse: diary of a death spiral The State vs. the Internet Adieu, la France National US Debt Vs. 10-year Yield Happy reading!
Archive forJune, 2012
Boiling links
June 29th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Boiling Links | Leave A Comment »
Free culture and basic income: same fight!
June 28th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis | Leave A Comment »
Why should pirate parties claim for an unconditional basic income? Because the philosophy behind is similar to the one of the free culture defended by the “pirates”.
Boiling links
June 25th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Boiling Links | Leave A Comment »
"Can you say no to four or five times your salary?" Why France is shunning the ebook Belarus: Views From the Ground Why Bitcoin is Flawed The silliness of modern monetary systems Happy reading!
Boiling links
June 19th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Boiling Links | Leave A Comment »
Peer-to-peer insurance: Friends with benefits Cash Is Better Than Food Stamps in Helping Poor Why Kickstarter’s great for tax revenues Greek Elections: Returning to the Unsustainable Status Quo Greece’s biggest hospital struggles as austerity cuts bite Happy reading!
Video games: an open valve for new economics experiments
June 19th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis, Crisis routine | Leave A Comment »
So far, I didn’t realize how important video games could be for economics experiments. Online community games, particularly, could provide a large-scale game field for economists that could help us understand human behaviors and experiments new ideas.
Boiling links
June 15th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Boiling Links | Leave A Comment »
Don’t worry about Target2 Mervyn King hits panic button How to sell Crowdfunding to the European Union? The History Behind Berlin’s Cheap Rents Happy reading!
A golden rule for discussing about gold standard
June 14th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Crisis routine | 4 Comments »
When talking about money and more specifically on the gold standard, there should be a “golden rule”. Not a time limit, just something simple like: every participant in such a debate must disclose how much gold (or silver) he owns.
Boiling links
June 12th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Boiling Links | Leave A Comment »
Beyond scarcity: redefining labour Pain Is the Agenda: The Method in the ECB’s Madness Americans’ wealth plummeted 40 percent from 2007 to 2010 The One Thing You Never See In Europe: Bank Failures Panic has become all too rational Happy reading!
Resolving banking failures through the bail-in
June 11th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis, Crisis routine | Leave A Comment »
While the eurogroup welcomed Spain’s demand for a European aid to recapitalize its banking system, and guaranteed a commitment up to 100 bn euros, another solution could be put in place for recapitalizing the spanish banking system : the bail-in.
Boiling links
June 9th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Boiling Links | Leave A Comment »
Crowdfunding Against the Impunity of the spanish Banks Central Banks Are Never "Out of Ammunition" Poor Lose Out in Poland’s Economic Miracle Ireland Still Faces Problems in Overcoming Debt Crisis The eurozone crisis: a workable solution, available today… Happy reading!
