Weekly reflections on topical issues from a range of contributors including historian Lisa Jardine, novelist Sarah Dunant and writer Alain de Botton.
John Gray argues that one side-effect of the financial crisis is an increasing number of people who believe that Karl Marx was right, as capitalism destroys the bourgeousie.
Last month 141 economists from around the globe launched the World Economics Association. In its first three weeks of existence more 4500 people from 120 countries joined its ranks. The association’s manifesto says it stands for a plurality of thought, method and philosophy, and a commitment to global democracy which will prevent one country or continent from dominating economic debate.
Ideas talks to three of the association’s founding members: Ha Joon Chang, the author of 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism; former World Bank economist and professor of economics at the London School of Economics, expatriate New Zealander Robert Wade; and Steve Keen the author of Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences,
Related links:
World Economics Associaton (http://www.worldeconomicsassociation.org/)
Debunking Economics (http://debunkingeconomics.com/)
Ha-Joon Chang (http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/person.html?id=chang&group=faculty)
Robert Wade (http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalDevelopment/whosWho/wader.aspx)
It would be better if you could go to wherever The Little Gray Book Lecture is being held this month (usually Brooklyn), order a beer, and enjoy the show. But since there are thousands of you all over the world, you can’t. So we turned it into radio and put it on the Internet.
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Social critic Douglas Rushkoff is ready to think big in response to the economic crisis still rocking the U.S. and the world. Really big.
Rushkoff thinks we got off track as a society a ways back. About 400 years back.
He’s not against capitalism. But the form we fell into –corporate capitalism – is killing us, he says. Killing values and communities. Turning us into the “brand that is me.” Turning homes into investments and 401k balances into cold barometers of success or failure.
It doesn’t have to be this way, he says.
This hour, On Point: Douglas Rushkoff rethinks our corporatized lives.
From: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/06/douglas-rushkoffs-life-inc