[GPSCC-chat] SOPA and PROTECT IP and What Is A Nexus Of Contracts

[Spencer Graves]

       Correct.  I'm currently reading Jeff Sachs (2011) The Price of 
Civilization (Random House).  Sachs makes similar points.


       "Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia 
University and special adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the 
United Nations' Millenium Development Goals."  (from the dust jacket)


       This book is the best overview of the current international 
financial situation I've seen.  Or at least I think so, primarily 
because it is quite well researched and fits well with everything else I 
think I know.  Of course, I may be biased, because it largely reinforces 
and extends opinions I've formed from many other sources.  However, it 
also has 31 pages of notes.  As I'm reading, I often look at his notes 
pages to help decide how much credence I should place in what he says.  
Later, I will sometimes go to the sources cited in things like this.


       Spencer


On 12/12/2011 8:39 AM, Drew wrote:
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> Oh and I meant to write "with no damn given for people or planet"
>
> Green is 7 Generations Sustainability!
>
> http://JillStein.org
>
> Drew
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> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
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> On 12/12/2011 7:58 AM, Drew wrote:
>>
>> John I have my doubts whether any form of corporation is really 
>> accountable to anyone. The concept of being accountable to 
>> shareholders is largely mythology from what I can see. The CEO 
>> usually stacks the Board, and together they do whatever they please 
>> or believe is in service of profits
>>
>
>
>       No:  They do whatever they perceive serves their best short term 
> interests, though maximizing profits is a common mantra.  Given the 
> choice of an action that will make the company boom in the short term 
> but has a 10% chance of bankrupting the company and a more 
> conservative strategy that will likely provide lower but reasonable 
> profits for the long term, they will generally select the more risky 
> strategy, because they most likely look like heroes in the short term 
> and can leave with their golden parachutes if that fails.
>
>
>> (with no damn given for people or profits). Shareholders rarely are 
>> effective in altering the course.
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>
>       Correct.
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>
>       Spencer
>
>
>> As I encouraged before, check out the book and movie "The corporation 
>> ". I would recommend it as one of our movies of the month.
>>
>> Green America!
>>
>> http://JillStein.org
>>
>> Drew
>>
>>

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