Archeologists Look At Bronze Age Craft Production in a New Light

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Looking beyond the economic realm and examining the sociopolitical role played by specialized craft production   First published on Medium·May 7, 2020 Centralization vs Decentralization in the Bronze Age In Continue Reading →

1976- The Year Maine State Corporatism Reclaimed Its Might

In 1969 the Home Rule Amendment was added to the Maine Constitution. It designates authority to the inhabitants of the municipality.to amend municipal charters and to approve public referendums for Continue Reading →

Systemic Soulutions to Housing Should Be Calibrated to Reverse the Wealth Divide

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Presenting the worker in resident housing zone Contemporary Capitalism Serves and Limits the Ownership Class A report from PItchbook The Transient Era of Billion Dollar Funds tells of the sudden boom and Continue Reading →

Is It Time for the Public-Private-Piggyback System to Step Aside?

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Pathways outside the algorithm open onto alternate worlds. Productivity Assets: The Floating Gull is the first Andersen Design wildlife sculpture designed in the late fifties. The Gull maintained its market appeal throughout Continue Reading →

Were Bronze Age Specialized Makers, Freemen or Slaves?

Centralization vs Decentralization in the Bronze Age In 2004 anthropologist Edward M. Schortman and Patricia Urban published Modeling the Roles of Craft Production in Ancient Political Economies, a research paper discussing trends Continue Reading →

Luddites, Guilds, and Societies of Correspondence

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The Power and the Beauty of the Working Class The Present State of the Of the Working Entrepreneurial Class Once there was a popular phrase for a conceptual ideal. It Continue Reading →