Spendere, ma per fare il bene pubblico. Creando valore, e non sottraendolo alla collettività. Guardando al lungo periodo, e non all’immediato: perché gli strumenti per ripensare l’economia sono gli stessi capaci di produrre inclusività, giustizia sociale, attenzione alla diversità. In altre parole, una società migliore.
By Steven Gorelick, managing programs director at Local Futures (International Society for Ecology and Culture). He is the author of Small Is Beautiful, Big Is Subsidized (pdf), co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home, and co-director of the Economics of Happiness. His writings have been published in The Ecologist and Resurgence magazines.Originally published at the Economics of Happiness Blog
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In that spirit, here are seven qualities that I consider essential to the identity of open source, contrasted with the diluted forms they commonly assume.
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The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary with two million views broadcasted from Japan to Latin America, analyze the shifting of state assets to private han...