The (unknown) G8 Agenda
Posted in kasinomics on Oktober 31st, 2006. Tags: climate change, g8, Heiligendamm, russia.Laura Sunderland, Senior Researcher a the G8 Information Centre of he University to compiled information about the upcoming agenda and referring to an article from the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The problem with the agenda is of course that many of the issues remain highly disputed and it is unclear whether they make it to the G8 discussion table. Read on, my friend »
Related Posts:
- The US-Iran-Debate and the lessons learned from containment •
- Economics of Protests and body smell because of vegan food •
- Back from Russia •
- Progress in Research: the G7 and FSF •
- Putin's Press Conference becomes an Internet joke •
- Mental Note: NGO Networks and the ModelG8 •
- Viral-Campaign by Russian Rexona uses the Russian blogosphere •
- Creating a thick international space •
- Letter from the PM •
- The World Economy from the past to the future •
- Description of Model G8 Youth Summit •
- Cambridge - here I come •
And recently, during a seminar on Political Economy with Prof. Zöller, I rediscovered the issue. Basically we argued about the following standard idea of economists: that property rights (of any kind) ensure that property is better used – in other words ownership is needed to create quality. I argued that there are lots of counter-examples such as Open-Source-Software, Wikipedia etc. The debate goes on and I will try to post some of my thoughts at a later point in time.