Boiling Frogs

Recent gay marriage debate in France unveils the rise of moral values as pretexts for ruling political debate.

A Finnish Parallel Currency Is Imaginable Inside the Rolling Jubilee, the First P2P Bailout The world’s ‘poorest’ president in the World Urban Poverty on the Rise in Germany World Sharing Day celebrates collaborative consumption (Guardian) Happy reading!

Last European Social forum was a failure in terms of convergence. How can Europeans citizens and civil society organization can join their forces for a another Europe? Here are few ideas on how to improve the next european social forum. Ten days ago, I was attending Firenze 10+10, the seventh European Social Forum. This event was held […]

Is a revolution in economic thinking under way? Why students must demand ‘debt abolition for all’ Why Occupy’s plan to cancel consumer debts is money well spent “In Greece right now, to be unemployed means death” Pathways to a universal basic pension in Greece Happy reading!

  Beyond the fight for better labor rights, Trade Unions must widen their vision, work on tackling mass-unemployment by defending the unemployed as long as the workers.

    Guy Standing is Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath and a founder member and co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a citizenship income for all. He worked at the International Labor Organization as researcher for many years and is author of “The Precariat — […]

Bank of England official: Occupy Movement right IMF’s epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers Is crowdfunding the future for wind farms in the UK? Occupy Movement Rallies for “Debt Strike” Worldwide (Global Voices) From Henry Ford to Joe Justice : WikiSpeed, Manufacturing in the Age of Open Collaboration Why support the undeserving […]

Wanting Meaningful Work Is Not a First World Problem Athens: Social Meltdown (must watch) Ireland gets its reward for being EU’s little pet poodle – nothing The Battle Of Iceland Six (maybe) good arguments for deficits (and one bad) Why Economic Pundits’ Biggest Mantra Is Wrong UK needs to talk about helicopters (FT) Happy reading!

Yes, the collaborative economy is destroying jobs. So what’s next? Will central banks cancel government debt? Lord Turner: Time for helicopter money? Policy makers can learn – by drinking more How finance led to debt servitude (Must read) IMF Shakes Austerity Orthodoxy for New Pragmatism Why the Mainstream Paradigm in Economics and Finance Collapsed Quantitative Easing […]

Giving money to everyone without conditions is often said to be morally hazardous. Sadly though, this argument looks like another symptom of the famous Stockholm syndrom.