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Showing posts with label trust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trust. Show all posts
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Matthew Harrington — Survey: People’s Trust Has Declined in Business, Media, Government, and NGOs

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Despite broad distrust of business, there are high expectations for business to do more — a potential opening to turn the tide of public op...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Chris Dillow — Inequality, trust & politics

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We have good evidence  that increasing inequality leads to lower trust. Functional societies are based on trust. Trust is why the Big L...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

David Andolfatto — Why the Blockchain should be familiar to you

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Today's post is more about marketing the idea of blockchain. The word sounds intimidating to many people. That's probably because a...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Patsy McGarry — Higgins says unaccountable forces are running EU

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Unaccountable forces removed from democratic control are today in control in the European Union , President Michael D Higgins has declared...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Izabella Kaminska — G.K. Chesterton’s fence and the consequences of lowering barriers

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"Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was  put up.” G.K. Chesterton Technologists and free-marketeers are obs...
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Chris Dillow — Believing others

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False confidence. Stumbling and Mumbling Believing others Chris Dillow | Investors Chronicle
Monday, August 31, 2015

Izabella Kaminska — Scaling and why it matters

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Not enough attention is paid to scale. Scaling is the basis of civilization. As Roger Erickson has pointed out, it is also the basis of ev...
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Steve Keen — Wolfgang Schäuble, The Trust Troll

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Schäuble was clearly the primary architect of the Troika’s dictat for Greece . One only has to compare its language to that used by Schäubl...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

How Do You Get People To Explore Their Options? Give 'em Enough Income To Keep Doing So.

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Speaking of trust, an erstwhile cartoonist examines the ... Trans-Pacific Partnership an...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Frances Coppola — Greece and the EU: a question of trust

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I have been mulling over the terms of the agreement between Greece and the Eurogoup. Initially, I thought that Greece had ended up with an...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

We Need Public Trust (And Scalable Verification Methods), Not Just Public Institutions

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(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) In ongoing discussion with friends at the Public Banking Institute , we often return to a state o...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Andrew O’Connell — Interpersonal Trust in the U.S. Hits a Historic Low

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Social fabric fraying? SOURCE: Declines in Trust in Others and Confidence in Institutions Among American Adults and Late Adolescents, 197...
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

AP — Study: Millennials Less Trusting Than Gen X Was

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A new study has found that, while Americans are mistrustful of each other and institutions -- from government to corporations and the medi...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

The Economist — John D. Rockefeller Defended [Review of Titan: The Life Of John D. Rockefeller Sr. By Ron Chernow]

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Nowadays, says Ron Chernow, most people imagine that American businessmen believe in competition. In fact, as he shows, in his thorough and...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Maria Alejandra Madi — Economics and Trust

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Keynes on trust needed to counter uncertainty. WEA Pedagogy Blog Economics and Trust Maria Alejandra Madi
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Henry A. Giroux — Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

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This is a long post but Giroux meticulously combed through the state of affairs and their implications for contemporary life and (formerly)...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Connie Cass — Poll: Americans Less Trusting Of Each Other

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These days, only one-third of Americans say most people can be trusted. Half felt that way in 1972, when the General Social Survey first as...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Rumplestatskin — Everything I was Afraid to Ask about Bitcoin but Did

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Bitcoin, transaction cost, reversibility, trust. Naked Capitalism Everything I was Afraid to Ask about Bitcoin but Did Rumplestatskin,...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

The Outcome of What Passes for Political Economy Today

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.) Perhaps ignorance is the problem? And apathy? And intellectual laziness? Republicans and the “L...
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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Mike Whitney — The True State of the Economy

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At the same time the corporations and banks are reporting record profits, Gallup surveys show that “trust in all three branches of the fede...