Copyright Kills Amazing Music Project

A very cool project has been killed by copyright. According to Wikipedia,
“The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle. Since its launch on February 16, 2006, more than 15,000 scores, for 9,000 works, by over 1,000 composers were uploaded, making it one of the largest public domain music score collections on the web.

Economic Outlook 2008: Darkening Clouds

'View of Dresden at Full Moon' (1839) by Johan Christian Clausen DahlPresidential election years usually are not recessionary but next year will be an exception. Several economic factors are colliding in an almost perfect storm to markedly slow the general economy and the stock market. Unfortunately, we will not be able to “inflate” our way out of this recession this time. We will simply have to take our lumps and let market forces liquidate the bulk of the malinvestments caused by the unprecedented Greenspan money bubble.

Evonomics

From Scientific American Magazine - January 2008: Evolution and economics are both examples of a larger mysterious phenomenon
...As with living organisms and ecosystems, the economy looks designed—so just as humans naturally deduce the existence of a top-down intelligent designer, humans also (understandably) infer that a top-down government designer is needed in nearly every aspect of the economy.

How to Bureaucratize the Corporate World

This stakeholder theory of corporate social responsibility is in direct opposition to the primacy of the interests of shareholders as owners of the corporation. Instead of working for the profit of shareholders, corporate managers are instead directed by this doctrine to act in the interests of a diverse group of “stakeholders,” with the shareholder considered to be merely one of these stakeholders. The groups to whom shareholder profits are to be sacrificed include employees, customers, business partners, suppliers, competitors, government regulators, the general community and even “pressure groups” and “influencers.”
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