UG#601 - The Psychopathology of Money (Nick Leeson, The Economics of Happiness)
Robin Upton | 27.12.2012 00:28 | Analysis | History | Sheffield | World
In our contrasting second hour, we present a radio adaptation of The Economics of Happiness, a film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steen Gorelick and John Page. This is similar in spirit to Lessons from Ladakh, this presents a critique of economic globalization, free trade and the movement from villages to cities. It points out that government policies are heavily biased against local businesses and the free market, in favor of multinationals. The film suggests that as resources dwindle, relocalization is inevitable. A vital step to relocalization, it says, is for citizens to assert control over what governments tax, regulate and subsidize.
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Why do corporations behave like this?
29.12.2012 20:16
Take away the state and the corporation ceases to exist, it just becomes a bunch of people doing something together, each with an unlimited and equal risk.
anarchist
globalisation
30.12.2012 12:10
But some people just can't leave others alone and have to engineer the perfect environmental policy. The nature of the economy is it wants to economise, the nature of government is it want's to expand.
anarchist
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