Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Sep 20, 2008	The Government's Responsibility To Young People
A few days ago I made an unusual sidestep and argued that national and community service programs should supplant government funding with local sources of funding, and scale back accordingly. This is unusual for several reasons, the primary among them being that I believe it is the...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Dec 23, 2007	Goodbye Free Trade, Hello Mercantilism…
As countries grow more interdependent, they’re also becoming more nationalistic, tells us another Newsweek article . Is there a clear trend towards mercantilism, or could it be merely a reaction on the current Western, neoliberal expansionism? (for those who believe in it). ...... [view]

Posted By:  albertomz Posted On:  Oct 15, 2007	Stuffed and Starved
You know a book is good when not one, but three different friends write to you unprompted to recommend it. And you know it’s a masterpiece when it spawns a Facebook fanclub group ! So today I bought Stuffed and Starved , Raj Patel’s new study on the absurdities and political...... [view]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  May 9, 2002
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