The struggle for the Union continues against slavers and tyrants

Don't forget the Annares/Uras comparison in The Dispossessed. Annares tries to compute real social value without a universal equivalent. Something similar envisaged in Red Plenty (but that uses shadow pricing. Is that money by another name?)

I know of a lot of work in creative practice research and in my own domain in history that has been very worried about the extractive possibilities of digital platforms. Have a look at this pacesetters.eu

Canada has a big opportunity to be central in planning the next Framework for EU R&D. It is already an associate in Horizon. Let’s have Canadian universities in the EUA.

If the ECB had been able to do this in 2008 we would be living in a better world.

Niall I agree with you in principle, but we (Ireland) have to be serious about sovereignty (passports, alliances , defence etc) to be taken seriously. Constructive ambiguity around our relationships with UK and US while a member of EU while pushing a non aligned line in the UN is not viable.