Tag: risk
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Saturday Links
Have a wonderful Easter weekend! 1. Rewriting the story of polarized debate: He got Tea Party and Occupy to talk Nabil Laoudji's Mantle Project puts citizens on stage to tell stories of the experiences that led them to their positions on tough issues. That's how he got members of the Tea Party and Occupy movement…
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“Information bad for you,” says older generation
Wikinomics: “Information bad for you,” says older generation I just turned 50 years old. So that officially qualifies me to be recognized as an “older American,” at least according to the good folks in the AARP membership department. As I’ve come to learn with age, you are certainly as young as you feel, act, and…
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Four Keys to Modern Prosperity: Capital Markets (Part 2)
Renaissance to Enlightenment Most of Europe was a collection of feudal agrarian societies before the Renaissance. Serfs paid rent to a lord for the use of land. That lord paid rent to a higher lord, who paid rent to a King. Lack of clear title for land ownership made exchanges in real estate very difficult.…
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Prosperity: Order and Reason
Yesterday I wrote that, apart from the Judeo-Christian heritage, religion has been mainly about bringing life into conformity with the cycles of nature. Ordering of lives is achieved through adherence to a set of stories and rituals that reflect these patterns. The stories and rituals give order to existence. The idea of processing from a…
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Living Simply in Abundance (5)
The biblical narrative was revealed into specific historical-cultural contexts. If we go back into the world of the Old Testament, we find a distinctly agricultural society. Unlike our Enlightenment/Modernist-influenced culture, "rights" did not begin with the individual or the state. The emphasis was on relatedness. God owned all that is, and humanity was made stewards…