Boiling Frogs

Welcome to the new reputation economy Africa: Moving Beyond the Resource Curse Not a joke: IMF Paper Backs Full Reserve Banking 3D Printing: Rise of the machines The ECB’s Collateral Bailout Happy reading!

Europe’s Paralysis Fuels Erosion of Democracy in East Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World’s Biggest Spam Networks Ratings Downgrade: Slovenia Becomes Europe’s Latest Worry The Netocracy is coming (you better be ready) Too Much Faith in Markets Denies Us the Good Life Happy reading!

Do you know Götz Werner? In case you don’t, Werner is a very famous entrepreneur in Germany. He founded the drugstore chain  dm-drogerie markt, which he led for 35 years. He is also a influent advocate of the unconditional basic income, and most of all a brillant and heterodox thinker.

Just a quick update on this blog in order to highlight one very worrisome (and little discussed) fact about the Greek crisis: the plunge of the money supply.

ECB in graphics The Fed Should Stop Paying Banks Not to Lend It’s Hip! It’s Cool! It’s Libertarianism! A Little Humility Among Economists Would Help Lesson from the past: Greek banks restructure loans rather than foreclose Happy reading!

Being busy with my projects, I’m not posting very much these days. So here is a quick roundup of warning signs I’m looking in my radar.

Sharing Gains Currency on Internet Economic history: Muddled models A New Idea to Save the Common Currency Ireland Bulldozes Ghost Estate The ‘Busy’ Trap Happy reading!

Despite fearful speeches, the global economy might never collapse entirely. Rather than any sort of endgame, there is a strong possibilty of being slowly but surely plunging into a slow-motion crisis that may not end in the near future. Here is why.

What would Keynes do? Why do so many people pretend that governments can easily control borrowing? Zuckerberg’s Loan Gives New Meaning to the 1% The Post-Employee Economy: Why Sky-High Profits Are Here to Stay From consumption to production: here comes the collaborative economy Happy reading!

Enough is enough of the age of consumption (FT) Is basic income a free lunch? Ho to teach post-crisis economics? The case for truly bold monetary policy (FT) It’s the 21st century – why are we working so much? Happy reading!