The word ‘markups’ does not arouse the same emotions as taxes and profits. But markups are an important and little understood form of ‘taxation’. When a business sells something, it takes the cost of either making it or buying it and adds a markup. The markup can be low for high volume goods and services,Continue reading “Corporate Imposed Taxes and How they Reduce Our Quality of Life”
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Climate Change Roulette
1 Metric Ton (MT) = 1000 kg 1 Metric megaton = 1 million MT 1 Metric Gigatonne = 1 billion MT Measuring Carbon Dioxide If we are to have a 66% chance of limiting global warming to 2C, the people of our planet have to have a limit on the amount of carbon dioxide pumpedContinue reading “Climate Change Roulette”
Why Do Our Governments Act Like Subsidiaries of the Oil Companies?
What happens to a society when a commodity and those who have been made rich by it takes control of economic and political decision making? What happens when commercial benefit tops the interest of the vast majority of citizens? The result is that rational evidence based decision making is thrown out the window. Decisions getContinue reading “Why Do Our Governments Act Like Subsidiaries of the Oil Companies?”
Are Co-operatives Likely to Build a Better World? (1)
The trends sketched out In Chapter 1 of From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation: We owe it to our grandchildren are daunting. That said, the co-operative business model offers a healthier alternative. It does not drive the worst trends. Credit unions did not create the bad mortgages and worthless derivatives that caused to 2008 collapseContinue reading “Are Co-operatives Likely to Build a Better World? (1)”
Building a Co-operative Economy
Some people react to the idea of creating a new economy to replace capitalism as pure naive optimism. It is just too big a task they believe. The reality is that if we all believe that, the new economy will never be built. The realty also is if enough people decide to make something happenContinue reading “Building a Co-operative Economy”
Everyone Welcome – March 15
With Author Tom Webb Thursday 15 March 2018, 7:00PM to 8:30PM – Room 132, Beveridge Arts Center (BAC) Acadia University 10 Highland Ave., Wolfville, N.S. Exploring Public Policy – Hosted by the Kings South NDP Abstract From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation explores some of the interconnected and disturbing trends facing our world andContinue reading “Everyone Welcome – March 15”
Rewording the trickle down theory
“The “trickle-down” theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.” William Blum, US author and journalist If you like this definition you might also like his book: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World WarContinue reading “Rewording the trickle down theory”
Our Search For Meaning
In a world that some mornings seems to have gone mad, it is all too easy to give up hope. I once gave a talk at Oxford University and a man in the front row asked, after I was finished talking about co-operatives, “But Mr Webb I liked much of what you said but surelyContinue reading “Our Search For Meaning”
Co-operation More Powerful Than Competition
An excerpt from: From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation, Page 90 “Neoclassical economics and right wing philosophy would tell us that the most powerful driver in human nature IS individual self-interest in the rational pursuit of maximum wealth for minimal effort. Wouldn’t that mean that co-operatives were just utopian dreams out of touch with whatContinue reading “Co-operation More Powerful Than Competition”
Searching for Meaning
In our own lives, what is more important, what we consumed today or what we contributed to our families, our communities and our world? What would leave us more dissatisfied, knowing that we acquired a less than perfect automobile, didn’t have the latest electronic gadget or that an idea we had failed to make theContinue reading “Searching for Meaning”
Global Co-operation 