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The Relationship Between Social, Human and Financial Capital
Maybe I’ve been reading too much Physics and their quest for the Grand Unifying Theory or maybe I’m suffering from a little bit of delusion and grandeur but I’m calling this the Grand Unifying Theory of Economics (cue Econ PhD’s the World over to rip it apart). The Grand Unifying Theory of Economics By looking at [...]
Is Capitalism Failing Us? Or Are We Failing Capitalism? Capitalism Needs to Get Social.
I am a true believer in Capitalism. I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. I do think that we have failed to evolve our own thinking about Capitalism and Capital and how we apply the two. One of Capitalism’s flaws or features, depending on your particular flavor of Capitalism (yes, there are many [...]
Time and Social Capital: The Ultimate Constraint
What started off as a metaphor for a book I’m working on has turned into a theory and I’m now wondering if it in turn needs it’s own book. It’s the concept of applying the principles of capitalism to a broader definition of capital. Thinks like knowledge and trust, things being described in theories around Social Capital [...]
Social Media, Social Capital and the Future of Capitalism
In my last post I explored the idea of rethinking what is capital. Jill, Jason and I had quite the discussion in the comments that raised more questions than answers. So I did what I always did; spent many nights when I should be sleeping and many hours on the plane in my recent travels [...]
Twitter Doesn’t Create Influence, it Reveals it
You can’t read more than a handful of tweets before someone mentions influence. You also won’t find a Twitter measurement tool out there that doesn’t mention influence. Some may ask how Twitter made so many people influential. It didn’t. I’d agree that it has made some people *more* influential if only because it gave people [...]
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