Tuesday, July 31, 2012
RE FLANDERS BBC FORGET ABOUT GROWTH
Great idea, but too late to start thinking about this,
now that prosperity possibilities
under another paradigm
have slipped away with globalization.
now that prosperity possibilities
under another paradigm
have slipped away with globalization.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
RE NYT ARTICLE 7/27 STRIP CLUBS IN TAMPA ARE READY TO CASH IN
This is typical of Florida culture, as well as national culture.
Joe Redner, from whom we took one of his clubs for a project, adjacent to the Hyatt along the Courtney Campbell, is a classic example of a local government official candidate.
Joe Redner, from whom we took one of his clubs for a project, adjacent to the Hyatt along the Courtney Campbell, is a classic example of a local government official candidate.
IN THIS COUNTRY INDIVIDUAL STATES CHARTER CORPORATIONS
Were it to become of use, say to extort concessions from MNCs, individual states in which they are incorporated would be the likeliest place to look for political leverage.
This leverage might be discovered and exploited somewhere at some time by "cash strapped states".
If I were a cash strapped state, I would extort the heck out of those MNCS incorporated in my state, or else, by state legislation, terminate the corporate charter.
A first step might be to legally prevent corporations from transferring their corporate charter to another state. Prevent corporate forum shopping. Delaware was always a big corporate charter draw.
I believe that large corporations need generally to be unwound, especially the largest ones with global reach.
They no longer serve the general welfare here, to say the least.
Another scenario: cash strapped states go out of business as political entities, devolve back into "free cities" and ungoverned frontier areas; and corporations cease to be legal persons at that point.
This leverage might be discovered and exploited somewhere at some time by "cash strapped states".
If I were a cash strapped state, I would extort the heck out of those MNCS incorporated in my state, or else, by state legislation, terminate the corporate charter.
A first step might be to legally prevent corporations from transferring their corporate charter to another state. Prevent corporate forum shopping. Delaware was always a big corporate charter draw.
I believe that large corporations need generally to be unwound, especially the largest ones with global reach.
They no longer serve the general welfare here, to say the least.
Another scenario: cash strapped states go out of business as political entities, devolve back into "free cities" and ungoverned frontier areas; and corporations cease to be legal persons at that point.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
RE SOVEREIGNTY AT BAY SEE ALSO PRIVATE GOVERNANCE
http://aei.pitt.edu/2851/1/102.pdf
Sounds great doesn't it,
given how things have gone,
with private very large firms,
especially banks.
Kind of like letting the foxes into the hen houses everywhere.
Sounds great doesn't it,
given how things have gone,
with private very large firms,
especially banks.
Kind of like letting the foxes into the hen houses everywhere.
See David Kaiser's current post
DK:
"....High educational ideals created both its achievements and its audience. It is moribund now in the United States because no cultural values compete with market values,..."
Reading Randall Collins' works, see The Credential Society, Collins attempts to relate 'cultural capital' to an economic base, in a rough sense, to an economic market concept (but it has almost never been a real laissez faire marketplace out there) to account for cultural and political change over time.
It seems to me that Collins' discussion is helpful for conceptualizing the role of culture, religion, education, media, and ethnic traditions, in a general sense, for economic and political dimensions.
They are not identical, of course, culture and economic/political base, but distinctions and interactions are hard to conceptualize without circularity, ambiguity, superfluity, reductionism, etc.
This discussion relates to my comments here about compartmentalization, specialization, and the remoteness, irrelevance, wastefulness, complexities, shapelessness, and obstructions of academic and educational fields, in relation to powerful movements of current history politics and commerce, which either ignore, bypass, pirate from, dissemble among, or hide behind them.
Collins' history squib of education in America is especially useful.
His references, on everything, are insightful.
Term search compartmentalization, specialization, fragmented, fragmentation, etc.
"....High educational ideals created both its achievements and its audience. It is moribund now in the United States because no cultural values compete with market values,..."
Reading Randall Collins' works, see The Credential Society, Collins attempts to relate 'cultural capital' to an economic base, in a rough sense, to an economic market concept (but it has almost never been a real laissez faire marketplace out there) to account for cultural and political change over time.
It seems to me that Collins' discussion is helpful for conceptualizing the role of culture, religion, education, media, and ethnic traditions, in a general sense, for economic and political dimensions.
They are not identical, of course, culture and economic/political base, but distinctions and interactions are hard to conceptualize without circularity, ambiguity, superfluity, reductionism, etc.
This discussion relates to my comments here about compartmentalization, specialization, and the remoteness, irrelevance, wastefulness, complexities, shapelessness, and obstructions of academic and educational fields, in relation to powerful movements of current history politics and commerce, which either ignore, bypass, pirate from, dissemble among, or hide behind them.
Collins' history squib of education in America is especially useful.
His references, on everything, are insightful.
Term search compartmentalization, specialization, fragmented, fragmentation, etc.
NOT THAT I AM A BIG DEFENDER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
But it was hardly a surprise, unfortunately, to find that the manager and backers of Madonna,
and her sacrilegious decadence, are Jewish American, and Israeli, interests and charities.
Perhaps Gaga's reductionist sacrilegious and decadent follow- up career is similarly backed?
Perhaps themes here can be seen as related to themes broached today re cultural and market values, and my reference to Randall Collins' works.
and her sacrilegious decadence, are Jewish American, and Israeli, interests and charities.
Perhaps Gaga's reductionist sacrilegious and decadent follow- up career is similarly backed?
Perhaps themes here can be seen as related to themes broached today re cultural and market values, and my reference to Randall Collins' works.
