The Problems of Knowing What Is Not So. 1997 Series 1 Number 23 Page 21 This was a comment by Bruce Buchanan on Dr. Németh’s paper (The Human Predicament: Walking […]
Dr. David Harries | Whither Accountability? So What? | 2023-03-08 | CACOR Zoom Presentation
Speaker: Dr. David Harries Topic: Whither Accountability? So What?. Time: Mar 8, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Accountability has become a crisis in its own right that is reinforcing the […]
Democratize Finance, Euthanize the Fossil Fuel Industry
How can we Value our Values – The Green New Deal won’t get far if it’s left hostage to the whims of private finance. We need to set up public […]
Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
Altogether over 2 billion people are engaged in systems that embed them in a context of a form of moral accounting – from ‘likes’ to ratings. The Chinese government plans […]
How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece
The question is whether democracy will emerge from oligarchic breakdown – or whether the oligarchs will just strengthen their grasp on the levers of government. One of the primary threats […]