... they [in power] do not hide their class contempt either. They have elevated it to actual policy: all schools must be modelled on the schools they went to, but with fewer resources. All hospitals must be run to make a profit. Taxes are for the little people. Those who don’t “get on” have only themselves to blame. An increasing range of theories come into play about why poor people are poor, which is never to do with lack of money but lack of civility. Or perhaps there is something wrong with their actual brains!
Παρασκευή 29 Απριλίου 2016
Παρασκευή 25 Μαρτίου 2016
Η Ελλάδα της ρωμιοσύνης...
Ένα άρθρο που καλύπτει κάθε σκέψη μου για την Ελλάδα του σήμερα που προέρχεται άλλοι μια Ελλάδα, Ρωμιοσύνη, Βυζάντιο του χθες...
Τρίτη 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2016
GINI: the Inequality index
Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income (or, in some cases, consumption expenditure) among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?order=wbapi_data_value_2012+wbapi_data_value&sort=asc
Δευτέρα 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2016
Yale's mathematical model for selfishness.
The study suggests that:
"Cross-culturally, it suggests that those who grow up in countries without a strong rule of law will develop an uncooperative intuition, he adds"
Ring a bell?
http://qz.com/601634/yale-psychologists-have-built-a-mathematical-model-for-selfishness/
Σάββατο 30 Ιανουαρίου 2016
Why Darwinian Economics Is so Threatening to Libertarians
Δευτέρα 21 Δεκεμβρίου 2015
Chinese Africa (中国的非洲)
China's future in expansionist capitalism passes through Africa...
http://qz.com/480625/photos-african-cities-are-starting-to-look-eerily-like-chinese-ones/