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Shareable: No Panaceas! A Q&A with Elinor Ostrom SAVE
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He studied Swiss peasants and then studied in Africa too. He was quite disturbed that people were saying that Africans were primitive because they used common property so frequently and they didn’t know about the benefits of private property. The implication was we’ve got to impose private property rules on them. Netting said, “Are the Swiss peasants stupid? They use common property also.”TAGS
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19 MAR 10
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LRB · Joshua Kurlantzick · Red v. Yellow SAVE
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Yet the traditionalists did not respond by trying to strengthen the institutions Thaksin had subverted – the media, for example, or the courts – or by rebuilding the Democrat Party. Instead, they chose to tear Thai democracy apart in order to bring Thaksin down.TAGS
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18 MAR 10
Why India Loves Facebook - The Daily Beast SAVE
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Social media was invented for Indians, says Sree Sreenivasan, a digital media professor at Columbia and co-founder of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association. "They take to it naturally and with great passion. It allows them to do two things they love: Tell everyone what they are doing; and stick their noses into other people's business."TAGS
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French Connection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia SAVE
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The Corsican Mafia was closely allied with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the SDECE after World War II in order to prevent the French communists from bringing the port of Marseilles under their control.[citation needed]TAGS
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Intimate History - Magazine - The Atlantic SAVE
“if you can’t stop people pissing in lifts, how are you going to stop Germans rearming?”TAGS