I’ve converted some of my recent papers into web pages for easy reading online. I hope that others find them of some use, if only for the bibliographies! Here is my New Radical Political Economy paper on social, peer-to-peer, participatory financial models. In the paper I contrast traditional banks and interest bearing capital transactions to these emergent models. Here is the web HTML version, and this is the PDF version for download....
I’ve just finished a paper on social, peer-to-peer, participatory financial models. In the paper I contrast traditional banks and interest bearing capital transactions to these emergent models. I’ve been looking at three different examples of these new business models, Zopa, Kiva and Open Capital, considering to what extent these organisations are challenging established practices. The full paper is available as a PDF. As soon as I’ve got my LaTeX/HTML conversion working I’ll post that too....
With a DCMS Minister urging publicans to challenge alcohol tax riseslobby the Government more effectively on the question of alcohol tax rises, may I present the Sutcliffe defense of : “My comments do not accurately reflect my views.”
UK Citizens Online Democracy’s (UKCOD) main activity is running the mySocietyproject, building websites which “give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives.” MySociety are the people behind the great web tools TheyWorkForYou, WriteToThem, PledgeBank, HearFromYourMP and FixMyStreet(a project similar to one comwifinet were hackingup in the distant past…)I’ve just been emailed about [UK Citizens Online Democracy’s (UKCOD) main activity is running the mySocietyproject, building websites which “give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives....
“I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement” I’m going to use that defense to cover any statements extracted from me using dubious/borderline interrogation techniques.