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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject: A Few Contemporary Thinkers
This is Cornel West interviewed by Tavis Smiley...Professor West expounds on market morality, contemporary nihilism, Christian discipleship, cheap American optimism and Blues inflected hope.
This Michael Albert giving an interview where he explains the fundamentals of Parecon: Participatory Economics...en economic model that reflects values of diversity, self-management, solidarity, participatory decision making, balanced job complexes and remuneration for effort and sacrifice...a socialist, anarchist grass roots economic model.
This is Vandana Shiva, Indian scientist and environmentalist, discussing the darker sides of globalization and how indigenous cultures and economies are destroyed.
Here is Bill McKibben challenging the dominant economic idea that "more is better" exposing it as a disasterous notion for individual happiness, social cohesion and planetary sustainability.