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thefifthwave | the fifth wave
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Information and influence in the age of the public. What is the fifth wave? Brief reflections on the Brexit vote. June 28, 2016. That the British vote to leave the European Union is a textbook example of the revolt of the public I take to be beyond dispute. The Conservative prime minister strongly opposed the exit initiative, as did the Labour and Social … Continue reading →. Democracy and dictatorship in a nihilistic age. May 24, 2016. The revolt of the public and the rise of Donald Trump. March 29, 2016.
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ISIS and the war on history | the fifth wave
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Information and influence in the age of the public. What is the fifth wave? Andrey Miroshnichenko’s review of The Revolt of the Public. Foreign policy in the age of Obama: First principles →. ISIS and the war on history. March 22, 2015. Barbarism As a Feature, Not a Bug. The Islamic State’s apparent destruction of ancient artifacts at a Mosul museum has been called barbaric. And an odious crimeagainst the heritage of humanity. Everywhere the rebels mostly young, media-savvy, glib rather than deep have de...
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Andrey Miroshnichenko’s review of The Revolt of the Public | the fifth wave
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Information and influence in the age of the public. What is the fifth wave? The problem is…. ISIS and the war on history →. Andrey Miroshnichenko’s review of The Revolt of the Public. March 17, 2015. Andrey Miroshnichenko is the author of. Andrey and I take the similarities to be meaningful. We think we are on to something. We may even be advancing on that phantom, truth. Andrey has just produced a brilliant and thoughtful review of The Revolt of the Public. Miroshnichenko, 2013). Gurri and I were no...
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Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world? | Valve
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A blog by Yanis Varoufakis. Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world? August 3, 2012. You have read Valve’s survival manual for new employees. You have read Michael Abrash’s wonderful account. Introduction: Firms as market-free zones. The wheels of change: Valve’s ultimate symbol of an alternative ‘spontaneous order’. What are corporations for? Spontaneous order via time allocation and team formation: Valve’s way. Interestingly, howev...
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A One-Penny Proof, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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January 1, 2016. I Win My Inflation Bet with Robert Murphy. December 31, 2015. Thoughts on "Almost Wholly Negative". December 30, 2015. Tina Rosenberg on Kidneys in Iran. December 30, 2015. There's no taste for accounting. December 30, 2015. December 29, 2015. December 28, 2015. The art of the possible. December 28, 2015. Two Public Choice Questions. December 26, 2015. Quote of the Day. Enter your email address for daily updates:. Instructions and more options). Join us on Facebook. JULY 11, 2012. I don'...
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The method and madness of the internet mob | the fifth wave
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Information and influence in the age of the public. What is the fifth wave? Foreign policy in the age of Obama: First principles. Data and terror →. The method and madness of the internet mob. August 4, 2015. You are a distinguished 72-year-old biochemist, a Nobel laureate. While speaking extemporaneously at a conference of women scientists, you refer to yourself as a chauvinist monster, offer up a lame joke about the romantic distraction women present in laboratory research, and conclude. That has kept ...
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Foreign policy in the age of Obama: First principles | the fifth wave
https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/foreign-policy-in-the-age-of-obama-first-principles
Information and influence in the age of the public. What is the fifth wave? ISIS and the war on history. The method and madness of the internet mob →. Foreign policy in the age of Obama: First principles. May 6, 2015. The Swirl of Events. Barack Obama has presided for six years and change over the government of the most powerful nation on earth: time enough for decisions and revisions, and for consequences to be manifested. Events, as always, have been in the saddle. The Repudiation of Power. For example...
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Information and terror attacks | the fifth wave
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Information and influence in the age of the public. What is the fifth wave? The social function of the news. The crisis of European democracy →. Information and terror attacks. January 8, 2015. The fateful question, rarely asked, about atrocities like the recent massacre in Paris. Is: what did the perpetrators expect to accomplish? The answer may seem intuitive. These men were terrorists. They obviously expected to achieve their political goals by terrifying the population. But what were the goals? Terro...
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What is the fifth wave? | the fifth wave
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Information and influence in the age of the public. What is the fifth wave? What is the fifth wave? Information expands in great waves which sweep over the human landscape and leave little untouched. We stand at the earliest moment of what promises to be a cataclysmic expansion of information and communication technologies: the fifth wave. Much of the old dispensation still remains. Because it has been useful to people in authority, it will die hard. In Cuba, bloggers are beaten. Endlessly on TV, and pra...
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Kony 2012 and the art of going viral | the fifth wave
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Information and influence in the age of the public. What is the fifth wave? The unsettling “simplifications” of Kony 2012. Marx and the Fifth Wave →. Kony 2012 and the art of going viral. March 26, 2012. The online advocacy video. Can only be described as a digital enormity, breaking all records and rules. By one measure. It reached 100 million views in. From: Visible Measures blog. When a message goes viral, a good question to ask is whether it’s being propelled by the. Of the message, its. Originally a...
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