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GOP Carbon Burners: Destroying Jobs to ‘Create’ Jobs?
California Wind Giants Urge Extension of Tax Credit BY REBECCA KHEEL SolidarityEconomy.net via Bakersfield Californian staff writer An extension to a tax credit for the wind industry has been lumped...
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Krugman, Marx and the ‘Rise of the Robots’
'Marxist Echoes' Indeed...It's Called the Crisis from the Growing Organic Composition of Capital over Labor--and the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall -Ed By Paul Krugman SolidarityEconomy.net...
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The Golden Age: Keynes, Malthus, Marx and the Post-Scarcity Vision
The 15-hour working week predicted by Keynes may soon be within our grasp – but are we ready for freedom from toil? By John Quiggin SolidarityEconomy.net via Aeon Magazine Sept 27, 2012 - I first...
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Cuba, Socialism and Cybernetics
Cubans See Internet as Crucial to Future Development By Ivet González SolidarityEconomy.net via InterPress HAVANA, Jan 5 2013 (IPS) - The Cuban government’s economic reforms must consider the myriad...
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Robots: Capitalism’s Dilemma, Socialism’s Promise
Will a Robot Take Your Kid’s Job? A troubling new study suggests technology will mean downward mobility—especially for the young. By Sarah LaskowSolidarityEconomy.net via Boston Globe Correspondent...
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What is ‘Socialist’ about ‘Green Socialism’?
By Mario Candeias SolidarityEconomy.net via The socialist Project Mario Candeias is a political economist, senior researcher at the Institute for Critical Social Analysis at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation...
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CyberLibraries: Saving Trees with Digital Stacks
Changing The Guard, Libraries In The 21st Century Conceptional Drawing Interior view of BiblioTech library. (Bexar County Commissioners Court) By Rick Diehl SolidarityEconomy.net via Techcitement.com...
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Technology and Permanent Job Destruction: The Dark Understructure of the...
The AP's High-Impact Three-Part Series on Joblessness and Stalled Recovery Middle-Class Jobs Cut in Recession Feared Gone for Good, Lost to Technology By Associated Press NEW YORK, Jan 25 2013 — Five...
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From Green New Deal to New Economy
By Atlee McFellin SolidarityEconomy.net via Common Dreams In a recent article about success in the sharing economy, Van Jones explained the degree to which sharing, crowdfunding, and other similar...
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Green High Design for Personal Urban Transport
MOVEO electric scooter folds in two, and looks kind of cool The MOVEO folding electric scooter By Ben Coxworth SolidarityEconomy.net via Gizmag.com When you hear the term “folding electric scooter,”...
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Why High Design Matters: Homes That Produce More Power Than They Consume
Affordable Solar Shingles Turn Electric Meters Backward By Sarah DeLaney SolidarityEconomy.net Solar shingles have been around since 2005, and improved technology combined with serious tax breaks make...
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Questioning the Falling Rate of Profit:
A Critique of Heinrich in MR on Technology, Value and Crisis By Keith Joseph The Kasama Project Monthly Review published an essay by Michael Heinrich critiquing Marx's work on the falling rate of...
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Green Jobs by Bringing Solar to Scale
World’s Biggest Solar PV Projects Under Way In Southern California By Pete Danko What will become the world’s largest solar photovoltaic development is now in “major construction” mode in California’s...
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How Can ‘High Road’ Big Capital be a Green Energy and Green Jobs Ally? Warren...
MidAmerican's wind energy project is $1.9 billion windfall for Iowa By William Petroski, Perry Beeman SolidarityEconomy.net via Des Moines Register, May 12, 2013 MidAmerican Energy Co.’s $1.9 billion...
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High Design Combines Waves and Wind for Green Energy and Green Jobs
SKWID harnesses the power of both the wind and the tide The SKWID system, which harnesses power from both the wind and the tide, is scheduled to be tested in Japan By Ben Coxworth SolidarityEconomy.net...
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Dystopia or Utopia? How a Mass Influx of Robots Will Affect Human Employment
It’s Time to Talk about the Burgeoning Robot Middle Class By Illah Nourbakhsh SolidarityEconomy.net via MIT Tech Review In the book Race Against the Machine, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of...
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Advanced Manufacturing: A Revolution in the Making
Digital technology is transforming manufacturing, making it leaner and smarter—and raising the prospect of an American industrial revival By JOHN KOTEN Wall St Journal via SolidarityEconomy.net June...
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The Impact of Robots: Abundance and the Need for Radical Structural Reform
Marx anticipated the problem as capitalism’s systemic crisis, the growth in the ‘organic composition of capital’ (machines) in an inverse relation to ‘living labor’ (jobs). The way out, in the shorter...
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‘Smart’ Wind Farms Make More Waves than Clean Energy
Big Data From Talking Turbines Signal Productivity Boom By Shobhana Chandra, Rich Miller and Peter Burrows SolidarityEconomy.net via Bloomberg.com Sep 11, 2013 - At the Top Crop farm in Dwight,...
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High Touch Leapfrogging High Tech?
Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization By Aviva Hope Rutkin SolidarityEconomy.net via MIT Tech Review Sept 12, 2013 - Oxford researchers say that 45 percent of...
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