Attacking Social Security Paul Krugman NY Times August 15, 2010 Social Security turned 75 last week. It should have been a joyous occasion, a time to celebrate a program that has brought dignity and decency to the lives of older Americans. But the program is under...

Impossible Choices in a World Depression Immanuel Wallerstein Agence Global June 15, 2010 As the world's leaders and pundits continue to deny the reality of the world depression -- they won't even use the word -- the impossible choices that are faced by government...

Notes from WESPAC’s Unemployment Initiative, inspired by Nick, Kwame and Sandra – First Meeting, April 14, 12-2Introductions (10 people attended the meeting, with three people coming after 2pm due to misunderstanding about the start time) What have you learned from...

Those who believe that the left-right polarization of traditional politics will find no place to draw energy in a cooperative society presumably believe that policy debates with egalitarian implications, for example, concerning income ratios and minimum requirements,...

Sarkar promotes a set of ten principles that encapsulate cardinal human values.149 The first three are concerned with the avoidance of violence, deceitfulness and theft as described above. To act according to cardinal principles of morality, says Sarkar, is virtue and...

30 UNDERSTANDING PROUT – VOLUME 1 Other studies published in accounting journals have concluded that the threat of prosecution significantly lowers the propensity for financial wrong doing, suggesting that an effective regulatory regime helps to keep business people...

18 UNDERSTANDING PROUT – VOLUME 1 In debates about equality, the theme of selfishness versus altruism obviously plays an important role. But perhaps surprisingly, nature versus nurture is also invoked. Those on the Left, in keeping with the socialist tradition, give...

The Ethics of Scientific Socialism Marx rejected a universal morality54 just as he rejected a fixed human nature but it is inaccurate to claim, as many have, that there is no morality to be found in his philosophy. Morality for Marx was rooted in class. Good and bad...

THE BIOPSYCHOLOGY OF COOPERATION 7 Opposition to the Cooperative Movement The British cooperative movement in the early years of the 19th century drew its inspiration from the Benthamites, a highly influential group whose primary philosophical concern was to place...

4 UNDERSTANDING PROUT – VOLUME 1 A third theme is egalitarianism. Many societies like to claim the virtue of equality, but what does it mean in practice? In particular, must a society be equal in some sense to be cooperative? A fourth theme is ethics. What kind of...