(Wei ji). In Chinese, the word denotes, from its first character, “crisis” and from the second character, “crucial or opportune moment.” What opportunities appear in the present global economic crisis? …
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Ways Out of the Crisis
A great crisis is also a great opportunity to institute reforms that ground an economy on a more sustainable basis. It is precisely this that is at stake right now …
Read More »Socialism Where Least Expected
The great global crisis that began in the United States with the burst of the real estate bubble has required the state to nationalize large financial enterprises and socialize losses. …
Read More »The Food Chain
This article is the first in a series on global food production and its vulnerability. This vulnerability is rooted in a basic assumption underlying economic production: namely, that supplies are …
Read More »The Importance of Style and the Forms of Power
Our society is one of networks, whose effects, direct and indirect, driven by new information and communication technologies, stimulate a form of politics that is horizontal, soft, and egalitarian. This …
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