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Roblin: Comments
Forum Post, September, 14 2010
Stephen Roblin
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It's difficult to give sensible comments by just looking at a table of contents. So I'm just going to put down whatever comes to mind. Maybe a few comments will be worth considering (I make no promises). The Ties That Bind 1: Institution...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A bold and refreshing idea
Forum Post, September, 14 2010
Stephen Roblin
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I'll check this out.
Roblin: Re: Looking for....
Forum Post, September, 14 2010
Stephen Roblin
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First, I like how you're framing the discussion--that society is so incredibly complex that we're limited to understanding what is on the surface. For this reason, it makes studying society more easy than say physics or football, areas whe...
Roblin:
Forum Post, September, 14 2010
Stephen Roblin
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His work seems interesting. Not sure when I'll have time to read it, but I'll add it to my reading list. I look forward to seeing your group page.
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A bold and refreshing idea
Forum Post, September, 14 2010
Stephen Roblin
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This is an interesting idea. I find myself more and more writing as I go. For example, before leaving a text, I mine it for key facts, analyses, and references to other works. I didn't know you've written on Sri Lanka. Do you have any art...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: A bold and refreshing idea
Forum Post, September, 14 2010
Stephen Roblin
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That's a great example! In the case of basketball, the parameters couldn't be clearer -- the goal is to win and the rules are evident to every basketball player. It's not all that different from OAS as the goals (producing a spec...
Roblin: Re: Great idea
Forum Post, September, 14 2010
Stephen Roblin
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"My concerns regarding their [PPSUK] strategy involve the tendency to do what we like, instead of doing what is most effective/needed, and perhaps the idea of evolving smaller groups through time into institutions and nested councils seems to...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: A bold and refreshing idea
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
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"I have a friend who does this too - but - he writes about contemporary events and is incredibly scrupulous about uncovering everything anyone has written about what he is addressing - and so, he does a ton of research, gets ready to write, a...
Roblin: Re: Re: A bold and refreshing idea
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
Roblin's ZSpace page
I found the class you held on writing to be EXTREMELY helpful. I'm learning that the worse thing to do is to do ALL the research and then go back and write. I'm trying to write as I research, hopefully this speeds things up for me. Quick que...
Roblin: A bold and refreshing idea
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Michael,I don't think your idea is presumptuous at all. In fact, I've asked myself how I could make my research and writing more collaborative, participatory, and transparent. I'm trying to accomplish this with my Zspace page. I may consider follo...
Roblin: Re: ABC's of Political Economy
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
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This book should be required reading for every introductory course on economics. I find myself referring back to it all the time.
Roblin: Question
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Are rates of smoking higher among those who lack access to healthcare? If so, this focuses the issue of smoking on access to institutions. The issue is similar in some ways to preventing abortions. From my understanding, women who've had consisten...
Roblin: Re: Re: Communication or Peer Production?
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
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"how are 40 people supposed to communicate in one hour every week, let alone every two weeks? They often don't. Members often go to listen to a few people explain what the agenda is because that is the only way to p...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: I want to - my problems
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
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These seem like great projects. These are exactly the types of groups we should be reaching out to. I only quickly looked at the websites, but it seems like they haven't thought through what a participatory economy would look like in more detail. ...
Roblin: Re: Glad to see this post
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Hi Kemp,I don't think you have to be an expert on parecon and the rest to be participate in a meaningful way. My view is that theoretically there's a lot of great ideas to experiment with; it's just a matter of experimenting with them. Doing...
Roblin: Re: Great!
Forum Post, September, 13 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Good luck with your project in Latvia! What is important is that our projects becomes linked nationally and internationally. That's why I like the idea of not starting from scratch and building from the Projects for a Participatory Society, the UK...
Roblin: Communication or Peer Production?
Forum Post, September, 12 2010
Stephen Roblin
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"it quickly becomes difficult to follow the thread of discussion if it becomes more than someone sending short messages." This is a major problem. How can online communication be harnessed in such a way where it leads to a coherent ...
Roblin: Why Not A "Project for a Participatory Society--U.S."?
Blog Post, September, 12 2010
Stephen Roblin
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Would ZMI grads currently residing in the U.S. be interested in forming a "Project for a Participatory Society--U.S."?
Roblin: Re: I want to - my problems
Forum Post, September, 12 2010
Stephen Roblin
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"I have to admit that I don't know how to progress right now, except through ways that don't seem to be working (maybe they will later)." I understand this feeling. But from my experience in Baltimore, it's less about not knowing h...
Warde: The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror
Book, September, 07 2010
In The Price of Fear, Ibrahim Warde presents a devastating critique of a lesser known front in the "war on terror," the battle against terrorist financing. Warde demonstrates that the financial front has been anything but benign and has instead un...
