A part of Fred Halliday's call to understand local agency before jumping the geo-political gun is to know the domestic politics (see his recent article here). War
Fred Halliday takes a broad historical sweep at the nationalist delusions of grandeur of small states. Nationalism, more than any other force, has led local leaders to mis-read their
Behind every ritual show of control, look for the unconfidence that it masks. Kerry Brown notices it in the the Olympic pageant. The perfectionism, the mime, point not so much
For the past week at openDemocracy we have focused our war coverage on history, on the particular, on reminding our readers that South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not abstractions, but
There's always a business model question hovering around iSummit, and 08 is no exception. Jamie King talked about what he'd learnt from Steal this film -with
Notaland.com is at the iSummit08 offering t-shirt remixes.
They print it on the spot, within a few hours. You get a template - this one had the iSummit08 logo
I spent yesterday in the Local Commons Global Context track of the iSummit event which was focusing on publishing on the commons. oD was there as one of 2 other
What is the global commons and what does it need?
Tony Curzon Price
July 27th 2008
Contents
* iCommons should be the confederation that serves the projects that constitute the global
Are oil prices rising because of semantics?A calm has returned to the economics blogosphere .... if not to the oil markets. Krugman saves his position by arguing that "speculation&
Here is an instructive comparison between economists and political realists:
First, the increasingly abstracted stock-flow models from Paul Krugman and Mark Thoma.
Second, a suggested account of the recent
A good summary of the positions by Mark Thoma (a bit of theory)Arnold Kling is not sure where to place his bets, but has a good counterfactual question to
Mark Thoma has a good summary of yesterday's econ-blogosphere debate on the speculation question. He ends up on the question of what single cause can account for
