20-10-2011, 06:17 AM
LINKS: 19 OCTOBER 2011
Some random items of interest:- Capitalism's central planners. PDF: The Network of Global Corporate Control. This is the ETH Zurich paper that is getting lots of interest now. New Scientist adds some more insight with their coverage. Central planning is the underlying reason the Soviet Union collapsed so quickly. We are seeing the same central planning dynamic today, but on a global scale. NOTE: it's pretty telling that a paper of this importance to modern economics/finance wasn't written by academics in economics/finance. It had to come out of the technical field of complex systems. ...
- Dave Pollard has some excellent thinking on cascading crisis.....
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"