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| Mittwoch, 19.11.2008 Literary perspectives: Sweden Recent literary debates in Sweden have dwelled, among things, on authors' love lives and penchant for designer handbags. Yet there is more out there if one looks: Hans Koppel's hatchet job on suburban manners, for example, or Magnus Hedlund's explorations of human perception. mehr... |
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| Mittwoch, 19.11.2008 The creativity fix In Richard Florida's "creative city", the creative class dissolves the classical division between the productive bourgeoisie and the bohemian. But creativity strategies have been crafted to co-exist with urban socio-economic problems, not to solve them. mehr... |
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| Dienstag, 18.11.2008 Something to declare The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been criticized from all sides since its inception sixty years ago. Conor Gearty calls for a fresh definition of this most humanist value. mehr... |
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| Dienstag, 18.11.2008 Nowadays Attention has to be paid to the individual victims of a small minority in pursuit of limitless and obscene wealth and power, writes Giuliano Mesa; and criticizes the prevailing resignation in the light of the dominance of economic logic. mehr... |
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| Dienstag, 18.11.2008 Zero confidence Banks collapsing, homes repossessed, jobs disappearing... no wonder the world is in despair. Steven Lukes turns to Emile Durkheim to make sense of the real depression. mehr... |
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| Dienstag, 18.11.2008 The red carpet Drug trafficking is "a highly productive industry" in Mexico, writes Juan Villoro. Corruption; a severe lack of freedom of expression; and excessive violence characterize the country as it is today. mehr... |
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| Dienstag, 18.11.2008 The malady of infinite aspiration "Esprit" watches market prophecies self-fulfil; "Blätter" calls off the bets in the financial casino; "Mute" refutes the received wisdom about inflation; "Dilema veche" notes how the financial crisis is reimposing the East-West divide; "New Humanist" turns to Durkheim to make sense of the depression; "Wespennest" doesn't give in to resignation; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) enters the belly of the piggy bank; "Vikerkaar" heeds cultures' anthropophagic appeal; "Dialogi" warns of a cultural wasteland in Maribor; and "Kritika & Kontext" returns a lost son to Bratislava. mehr... |
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| Dienstag, 18.11.2008 From subprime to slump? This year the world has seen the power of money to socialize the costs of capitalist crisis, but are prices going to go on rising to Weimar-like levels? Jon Amsden explores the origins of the crisis and discerns something worse than inflation on the horizon. mehr... |
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| Montag, 17.11.2008 Panic in the financial casino Self-regulation by the market has turned out to be an illusion: what's needed now is more governmental regulation of financial markets along with caps on managerial salaries, writes Heiner Flassbeck. mehr... |
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| Montag, 17.11.2008 Fragile new Europe Despite talk of a "unified European plan" to combat recession, the motto among EU member states seems to be "each to his own". The financial crisis is bringing back the divide between eastern and western Europe, writes Mircea Vasilescu. mehr... |
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