" One week after 2010 Midterms, 'GOP Hopefuls Jockey for Donors' "

"The Republican Party's 2012 hopefuls haven't announced their presidential bids yet, but that's not stopping them from skirting federal campaign-finance laws."

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Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. 

 

Acclaimed Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef; he won the Right Livelihood Award in 1983, two years after the publication of his book Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics.

George Lakoff on the Politics of Language in the Mid-Term Elections

"Even in President Obama’s post-election press conference, his inability to speak in broad moral terms was clearly revealed. That, according Cognitive Scientist and Linguist, George Lakoff, is one of the Democrats greatest shortcomings."