Homo Economicus Swinging Back - The Ceasing Free-Rider Problem
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Traditional economic models assume that people are self-interested in the narrow sense. If “homo economicus” - the stereotypical rational actor in these models - finds a wallet on the sidewalk, he keeps the cash inside. He doesn’t leave tips after dining in restaurants that he will never visit again. And he would never vote in […]
Economics, Policy, Psychology, Social, Sociology, Stereotypical, TraditionalWHAT IF WE ARE GOD - Threat To Democracy In The 21st Century
The current political climate is showing a political will that is struggling to effectively come to terms with global warming, let alone deal with it. Whilst a serious threat of this nature is a first for civilisation, politicians struggle with it because it can directly conflict with the agendas of those who helped them into […]
Capitalism, Corporate, Democracy, Finance, Global, God, Life, Nature, Political, Power, Society, WarCARNAGE & THE MEDIA - The Basis of News Within Society
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This fifth offering from Jean Seaton, Professor of Media Studies at Westminster University, is a passionate appraisal of news and the basis of it within society today.
In ten tight chapters Jean takes the reader through her principle ideas, from Blood in the High street to Global Compassion, dissecting the representation of major tragedies played out […]
BARACK OBAMA - Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007
“…We don’t need more heat in government, we need more light … Hope … That thing inside us that exists, that despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting before us around the corner; but only if we are willing to work for it and fight for it. To shed our fears […]
Awareness, Communities, Concepts, Contemporary, Culture, Events, Freedom, Function, Human rights, Inspiration, News, Philosophy, Political, SocietyGEORGE GALLOWAY - Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003
George Galloway:
“I could run through the world now, tyranny by tyranny and virtually every one of them is backed by the United States. It only stays in power, because of the United States. The Pakistan example, which is the perfect crystallisation of this; a soldier called ‘The General’, called himself a president, you’ll remember that, […]
FOLK BRITANNIA AT BARBICAN - 21st Century Folk Music
FOLK BRITANNIA provides an idiosyncratic snapshot of British folk music in the 21st century.
A year ago, the festival Jazz Britannia was such a success that the Barbican along with BBC Four are bringing to us this year, a 3 day festival which celebrates the evolution of British folk music from the end of the Second […]
GET SHORTY - Seven-Piece Hip Hop/Funk Collective
Shakila Rajendra chats to the London collective who are determined to make a mark with their cross-genre brand of hip hop/funk music.
Let’s get one thing straight, Shorty aren’t an all singing all dancing group of (let’s be politically correct here) ‘vertically-challenged people’. Neither are they a girl band who named themselves so, out of devotion […]
TOM HUNTER - Living in Hell and Other Stories
Currently exhibiting at The National Gallery is an east London artist depicting real life stories taken from The Hackney Gazette.
Tom Hunter tells these stories using carefully staged, large format photographs, restaging them in compositions that often directly refer to classic paintings of the past, many of the paintings to which Hunter has referred for his […]
PUBLIC ENEMY - What Happened to the Music Protests & Rage?
Having recently released “Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits”, to document their immense and far-reaching legacy to the development of hip hop music, how did Public Enemy catalyse the transition of rap music from minority interest to establishment juggernaut?
Public Enemy have released a ‘Best of’ compilation of their music […]
CITIZEN KEN - A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions
“People don’t live in a vacuum, they live in a world determined by political and economic decisions that affect them down to the most private, the most inner part of their lives” KEN L.
Ken Loach is unassuming. His work has a richness and complexity, so often absent in modern movies, that marks a strongly humanist […]
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