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Principled Action: Keep alive in your hearts

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 5 months ago: “Keep alive in your hearts the feeling of confidence that the light of knowledge will inevitab … more →

Tags: Business & Finance, Economy & Finance, ethics, governance, Justice, Meta-ethics, My Reviews, Philosophy, philosophy and society

Wiki-ontology, wiki-epistemology: is it Really Real?

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 year ago: Concepts such as “ontology” and “epistemology” used in discussions of Web 2. … more →

Tags: academic disciplines, Business & Finance, collaborative, Concepts/Ideas, Economics, governance, Philosophy, philosophy and society, Political Philosophy

Civil Society: Rousseau (1753) and Locke (1690)

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 year ago: Like many viewers initially watching the television seriesLost, I remained lost throughout its entir … more →

Tags: democracy, Economics, governance, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Justice, Civil Society, Civilization, Human Nature

What is Being Done in the Name of Social Cohesion?

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 year ago: Some of the most compelling work currently being done in the name of social cohesion is undertaken u … more →

Tags: postnational, teaching learning and research, Religion and Politics, Social History Timeline, Political Philosophy, Public Policy, governance, Social Cohesion, public policy formation network

More state intervention through laws and regulations: the future of financial intruments as mortgage-meltdown reveals high cost of unfettered markets1 comment

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 year ago: More state intervention through laws and regulations: the future of financial intruments as mortgage … more →

Tags: del.icio.us, Economics, moral mathematics, New York Times, Risk Management, Risk Society, Social Justice, wealth disparities in OECD, Accountability

ISR's January 2008 Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers Claim Wealth Disparties Intensify

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 year ago: According to the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, one of the most widely-cited s … more →

Tags: Business & Finance, Child Poverty, Economy & Finance, Human Geography, social sciences, Sociology, vulnerability to social exclusion

Stressing your system

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: He was a first generation Canadian and was deeply proud of his Scottish background. Whether saying a … more →

Tags: Business & Finance, economic efficiency, Economy & Finance, ethics, Social History Timeline, Social Justice, Timelines, social capital, Canadian Council of Chief Executives

Famine, food and fertilizer

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: When Malawi chose to subsidize fertilizers for impoverished farmers dependent on international aid t … more →

Tags: vulnerability to social exclusion, thinkfree, World Bank, SAP, African underdevelopment, Tag Clouds

Inuit Communities as the New DEW Line: Camels in the Arctic?3 comments

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: How can a Canadian social scientist in 2007 set aside economic development, energy security, youth p … more →

Tags: Child Poverty, climate change, ethics, forgetting, Memory Work, Risk Management, Risk Society, Social History Timeline, Social Justice

Canadian child poverty, income inequality and other inconvenient truths

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: Key words Absolute measure of poverty is the standard used by the U.S. If a family can afford a modi … more →

Tags: Child Poverty, Social Justice, C.D. Howe, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, moral mathematics, OECD, Social Cohesion, social exclusion, vulnerability to social exclusion

“Fear Industry marries Oil Industry: Albertastan? Canazuela? Who’s Afraid of Social[ism] Capital?”

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: Business Editor Charles Frank (2007) cites a FirstEnergy Capital Corp newsletter to clients comparin … more →

Tags: Blogosphere, economic efficiency, Economy & Finance, ethics, postnational, Risk Management, Risk Society, Social Justice, Affluenza

Meteoric Rise of Private Equity and Hedge Funds3 comments

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: In his May 10, 2007 Address to Shareholders, Paul Desmarais Jr. CEO of the Power Corporation of Cana … more →

Tags: Business & Finance, economic efficiency, Economy & Finance, ethics, postnational, Risk Management, Risk Society, Social Justice, Virtual

Green Calgary`s Dilemma

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: Calgary-based senior economist at ATB Financial, Todd Hirsch comes to the unsettling conclusion that … more →

Tags: Risk Society, Economy & Finance, Business & Finance, Social History Timeline, Risk Management, ethical topography of self and the Other, East/West, Energy, Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Can science bring us into a golden age of understanding human nature? (Pinker 2002)1 comment

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: Why are genetics, neuroscience and evolution perceived as corrosive to notions of free will, persona … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Technology. Mind and Consciousness, Social Justice, Memory, My Reviews, Neuroscience, Science, Consciousness, ethical topography of self

King of Canada: Tom d'Acquino CEO of CEO's

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 2 years ago: The Canadian business community has taken the most active interest in politics at the CEO level than … more →

Tags: Tag Clouds, Social Justice, Risk Society, postnational, teaching learning and research, Power and everyday life, Economy & Finance, economic efficiency, Risk Management


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