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Bruno Dumont economic-models political interesting We are involved in a historic restructuring of the world economy. Virtually every country that matters has been striving to pursue the same economic model, and has bought into a set of market-based principles that has brought new players on the stage and new markets. We have to take full advantage. Chris Alexander economic-models player country Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted. David Shields economic-models reality art Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again. Evo Morales economic-models latin country I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. Evo Morales economic-models understanding country The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands. Evo Morales economic-models fighting hands The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. 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Hugo Chavez economic-models lifestyle socialism Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically. John Carroll economic-models simple moving Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities. John Carroll economic-models cutting meaningful Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation. Joseph Stiglitz economic-models logic periods We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh. Judd Apatow economic-models creativity people I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models. Lars Peter Hansen economic-models understanding use People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse. Matthew Specktor economic-models people thinking Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice. Michelle Bachelet economic-models country hands I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living? Mikhail Gorbachev economic-models what-if america 12»