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George Zarkadakis: May 2010
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A sketchbook of words. Sunday, May 9, 2010. A social contract, broken. Contrary to western Europe, where property has been the prevailing value of the ruling elites, in. It has been rent-seeking. Throughout the Ottoman period, local authority was based on tax collection, as performed by the local elites, the “kotsabazes”. Revolted in 1821, they quickly managed to regain control, albeit through a civil war (that started in 1822! This has been the social contract upon which. Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Has faile...
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George Zarkadakis: Letter from the abyss
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A sketchbook of words. Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Letter from the abyss. History is aplenty with ironies, so here's one more:. The ancient one) the foundation of the European idea, and. Has failed not because of an oligarchy snatching away the country’s wealth, but because of socialist politics that benefited one and a half million workers (who are employed as civil servants and produce nothing), propped up with borrowed foreign money. Should we blame the bankers and the hedge funds for this? Has exposed the ...
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George Zarkadakis: Whatever happened to Dedalus? (and, by the way, Icarus too)
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A sketchbook of words. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Whatever happened to Dedalus? And, by the way, Icarus too). The failure and opportunity of innovation in. Many myths are born in. One of which claims that Greeks rank amongst the cleverest people in the world. And yet, by examining. 8217;s ranking in the Global Innovation Index [1]. A favorite explanation for. 8217; lack of marketable hi-tech ideas is that public investment in research and development is very low. Indeed. Is one of the lowest in. The key t...
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George Zarkadakis: Darwin 101 for politicians
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A sketchbook of words. Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Darwin 101 for politicians. It is therefore not at all surprising that such a powerful idea spilled over quickly from the curious observation of amphibious lizards and garrulous birds in the. And the Amazon forest, and entered the controversial realm of human society. Francis Galton,. His proposition inspired, several decades later, the instigation of the welfare state in the. A virtually apartheid state in the beginning of the 20. Darwinism fell quickly ...
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George Zarkadakis: July 2010
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A sketchbook of words. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Whatever happened to Dedalus? And, by the way, Icarus too). The failure and opportunity of innovation in. Many myths are born in. One of which claims that Greeks rank amongst the cleverest people in the world. And yet, by examining. 8217;s ranking in the Global Innovation Index [1]. A favorite explanation for. 8217; lack of marketable hi-tech ideas is that public investment in research and development is very low. Indeed. Is one of the lowest in. The key t...
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George Zarkadakis: July 2009
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A sketchbook of words. Saturday, July 4, 2009. Pensively on the embers of the old world order. While Lehman Brothers collapsed and young starry-eyed hopefuls, still drugged with the nectar of easy money, carried their stationary boxes to the local pubs of. Lived to an old age and were as health as we are, and yet they had none of modern medicine. If anything, antibiotics and our reliance on them, are pushing humanity close to extermination, should a mutated microorganism decides to attack us. The charact...
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George Zarkadakis: The Edge Annual Question: How Is The Internet Changing the Way You Think?
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A sketchbook of words. Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The Edge Annual Question: How Is The Internet Changing the Way You Think? Its impact on the western political system is perhaps less obvious but not least important. Representative democracy is being undermined constantly by the de facto disintegration of political constituencies as well as national borders. The Internet’s effect on newspapers and the media is more prominent and corrosive, but is comes a late second to the radical transforma...All in all,...
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George Zarkadakis: Can Greece be reinvented?
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A sketchbook of words. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Can Greece be reinvented? The Financial Times reporter finished his grim report from debt-stricken Greece with the wishful suggestion that only the “reinvention” of Greece may bootstrap her out of her recurring bankruptcies. First, let me take issue with the invention part. Then, I will look into that prefix “re”. The idea of modern. Greece, like any human artifact really,. Has been an invention. In the late 18. Century to a loosely-defined “Gree...
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George Zarkadakis: February 2010
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A sketchbook of words. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Can Greece be reinvented? The Financial Times reporter finished his grim report from debt-stricken Greece with the wishful suggestion that only the “reinvention” of Greece may bootstrap her out of her recurring bankruptcies. First, let me take issue with the invention part. Then, I will look into that prefix “re”. The idea of modern. Greece, like any human artifact really,. Has been an invention. In the late 18. Century to a loosely-defined “Gree...
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George Zarkadakis: A social contract, broken
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A sketchbook of words. Sunday, May 9, 2010. A social contract, broken. Contrary to western Europe, where property has been the prevailing value of the ruling elites, in. It has been rent-seeking. Throughout the Ottoman period, local authority was based on tax collection, as performed by the local elites, the “kotsabazes”. Revolted in 1821, they quickly managed to regain control, albeit through a civil war (that started in 1822! This has been the social contract upon which. A social contract, broken.
