Subscribe

Topic: Political Economy

New with Topic: Political Economy


Tom Usher
Tom Usher posted a blog entry
FOLLOW THE MONEY, BUT WHAT IF THEY WON'T LET YOU? THEY CAN'T STOP YOU: 9/11, REAL ESTATE CRASH, CREDIT CRISIS, ETC.
They can't stop you in general, and that's all you really need. They can stop you from obtaining the details, unless everyone...
 
<em>anatolant</em>
anatolant bookmarked a link
Loïc Wacquant
site of sociologist who was often a co-author with Pierre Bourdieu
 
Tom Usher
Tom Usher posted a blog entry
MATTERS LITURGICAL AND COERCIVE: FROM CAPITALISM TO TRUE COMMUNISM THAT IS CHRISTIANITY
Title: "Liturgico." This post is based upon an in-depth conversation. My position is truly conservative. It's a...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
End of the Petroleum Age?
Michael Klare, Foreign Policy in Focus - June 26, 2008 Editor: John Feffer At the hastily convened...
40 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: fossifuels, political-...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Mining Turf Wars
Lee Hudson Teslik, Council on Foreign Relations - July 10, 2008 Coal is among a number of commodities fueling a mining...
40 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: investment, carbon, war, extractive...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Nuclear Recycling Fails the Test
Robert Alvarez, Foreign Policy in Focus - July 7, 2008 Editor: Miriam Pemberton Over the past few years, attention to the...
40 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: political-..., nuclear, energy
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
The Commodities Bubble
Sameer Dossani, Foreign Policy in Focus - June 28, 2008 Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco For those following economic trends, the...
40 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: investment, political-...
 
commonpreyr
commonpreyr posted a blog entry
Because he doesn’t need to be a candidate to be worth watching and hearing
Link for those who can’t see the videoMy personal hope is that Bush is letting the Iran stuff drag on just as a favor to...
 
evolusi
evolusi posted a blog entry
famine and Malthus's population check
Ada 2 artikel menarik di the economist, yang pertama (tentang teori Malthus) dan yang kedua (tentang kelaparan di Ethiopia). ...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
UK, Poland, Germany Plan EU Renewables Pact
Pete Harrison Planet Ark - 6/6/2008 Original URL LUXEMBOURG - Germany, Britain and Poland plan to table proposals at this...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
World Environment Day Calls For End To Carbon Addiction
Gyles Beckford Planet Ark - 6/6/2008 Original URL WELLINGTON - The United Nations urged the world on Thursday to kick an...
75 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: event, carbon, political-...
 
commonpreyr
commonpreyr posted a blog entry
Blockbuster.com knows I’m reading “Into the Wild”? Coincidence or has web searching progressed farther than I thought?
OK, I don’t remember mentioning that I am engrossed in Jon Krakauers’ Into The Wild, except to include it in my...
75 days ago once more with feeling | Topics: political-...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
IEA: $45 trillion to curb global warming
Agence France-Presse - June 06, 2008 Original URL THE world must spend one per cent of its annual economic output to halve...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Weather risk market climbs 76% in value
Environmental Finance - 5 June 2008 Original URL London, 5 June: The market for weather derivatives last year was worth a...
76 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: monetary, wheather, political-...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Biofuel row :"stalls UN food text"
BBC News - 5 June 2008 Original URL The food crisis is said to have pushed 100 million people into hunger Latin...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
The great carbon bazaar
Evidence of serious flaws in the multi-billion dollar global market for carbon credits has been uncovered by a BBC World...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
EU defends sustainable biofuels policy as criticism mounts
Thomson Financial News - 06.04.08 Original URL BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - European Commission spokesman Johannes...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Moscow Diary: Changing climate
Apart from dismaying fans of winter sports, climate change could alter the whole of Russia's traditional way of life, the...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Environment 'more vital than economy'
Tackling climate change is too crucial to be derailed by a temporary economic downturn, the OECD head has said. By Steve...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Food Price "Catastrophe" Feared On Eve Of Summit
Robin Pomeroy and Stephen Brown Planet Ark - 3/6/2008 Original URL ROME - Soaring food prices could trigger a global...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Senate Opens Debate on Politically Risky Bill Addressing Global Warming
By John M. Broder The New York Times - June 3, 2008 Original URL Legislation was introduced by, from left, Senators...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Bush Would Veto US Climate Change Bill
Deborah Zabarenko Planet Ark - 3/6/2008 Original URL WASHINGTON - Even before debate began Monday on the first comprehensive...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
'Forget climate change, we should spend on nutrition'
Mark Henderson, Science Editor, in Copenhagen The Times - May 31, 2008 Original URL Malnutrition in mothers and...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
CDM needs a rethink, feel critics
Commodity Online - 2008-06-02 Original URL NEW DELHI: The UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) program is inviting...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Brazil To Defend Biofuels At UN Summit In Rome
Phil Stewart Planet Ark - 2/6/2008 Original URL ROME - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday he...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Indonesia to export oil in five years
Special Broadcasting Service - 29 May, 2008 Original URL Indonesia hopes to return to oil exporting in five years, the vice...
81 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: policy, political-..., energy, politics
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Indonesia Quits OPEC as Oil Prices Soar
By Associated Press 28 May 2008 Original URL Declining oil reserves and investment have forced Indonesia to quit the...
81 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: policy, crisis, political-..., energy
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Emissions trading won’t fix climate change: expert
By Alex Dunnin Financial Standard - Friday, 23 May 2008 Original URL Emissions trading won’t lower emissions production as...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Strange bedfellows
Companies as activists May 22nd 2008 From The Economist print edition Original URL Activists and companies can move from...
90 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: political-..., corporates
 
alexmthomas
alexmthomas posted a blog entry
On Malthusian Theory of Population
This post revisits ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’ written by Thomas Malthus in 1798. In my last post I briefly...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Development Crucial To Saving The Brazilian Amazon
By Todd Benson Planet Ark Original URL BRAZIL: May 19, 2008 SAO PAULO - The best way to preserve the Amazon rain forest is...
93 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: political-...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO The New York Times - May 18, 2008 Original URL Antonio Scorza/Agence France-Presse —...
94 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: political-...
 
Cecilieaux
 
Erle Frayne Argonza
Erle Frayne Argonza posted a blog entry
SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR MARGINAL SECTORS IN RESOURCE EXTRACTION
Erle Frayne D. Argonza [Writ 23 March 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila] I have always supported a ‘social capital’...
 
Erle Frayne Argonza
Erle Frayne Argonza posted a blog entry
NATIONAL BANKING & FINANCIAL-MONETARY REFORMS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza [Writ 23 March 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila] Who really is in control of a country’s central...
 
Erle Frayne Argonza
Erle Frayne Argonza posted a blog entry
A NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE IS MOST EXIGENT
 Erle Frayne D. Argonza [Writ 23 March 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila] From the early 1970s through the 1990s, the...
 
commonpreyr
commonpreyr posted a blog entry
Ramble: free-market ideal of individual economic freedom has to be a novelty
Individual economic freedom: I’m all for it, being me and all.But I doubt it had that much relevance to, say, the...
 
jtoddring
jtoddring posted a blog entry
A Short Rebuttal of Hobbes
Freedom, Democracy and the Delusions of Power For all his faults and the faults of the endeavour he was involved with,...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Corporate Social Responsibility? "Amoral!" Kata Friedman
Hakekat perusahaan (corporation) adalah menghidupkan dinamika ekonomik lewat kegiatan produksinya yang mampu menangguk laba...
117 days ago Ruang-Baca | Topics: political-...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
World Bank's Massive Fossil Lending Undermines Its New Climate Funds
by Peter Riggs Solve Climate - Apr 14th, 2008 Original URL When you want to quit smoking, do you call a tobacco company?...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
India proposes new steps to combat climate change
Press Trust Of India - April 14, 2008 Original URL India has proposed a set of steps, including 'climate proofing' of...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
The cost of green tinkering is in famine and starvation
Biofuels threaten food supplies, rainforest and climate - yet our leaders push them in the name of the environment   ...
127 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: biofuels, policy, crisis, fossifuels
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
China 'now top carbon polluter'
China has already overtaken the US as the world's "biggest polluter", a report to be published next month says. By Roger...
127 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: emission, fossifuels, political-...
 
commonpreyr
commonpreyr posted a blog entry
Today is tax day (as was yesterday and will be tomorrow…)
I just saw awesome quotation about magic, money, and hallucinations that is inspiring this really brief post.So I thought I...
127 days ago once more with feeling | Topics: political-...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Gore to spend $300 million on global warming ads
mongabay.com - March 31, 2008 Original URL This week Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign to mobilize...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Global warming solutions are hurting indigenous people, says U.N.
mongabay.com - April 2, 2008 Original URL Large-scale solutions intended to help mitigate global warming are harming the...
134 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: political-..., impact, crisis, offset
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Miracle solution or imminent disaster?
Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara Jacqueline Vel Inside Indonesia 91: Jan-Mar 2008 Original URL ...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
A revolutionary response to the climate change crisis
Dave Holmes 4 April 2008 Original URL   Dave Holmes is a veteran leader of the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a...
137 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: climate-ch..., political-...
 
commonpreyr
commonpreyr posted a blog entry
Why didn’t Machen have any peace children?
I’m referring of course to the way war seems to be attractive to Presbyterians (at least, that’s my subjective...
 
A. W
A. W posted a blog entry
Indonesia feels the pinch as oil, commodity prices surge
ANTARA News -03/30/08 11:36Original URLJakarta (ANTARA News) - With prices for key commodities at record highs, Indonesia --...
142 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: policy, political-..., palmoil