Thursday, June 12, 2008
Against celebrating indigenous lifestyles
A useful article by Rob Johnston in Tuesday’s spiked on why it is wrong to romanticise the lifestyles of indigenous peoples.
Labels: development, spiked
About Me
- Name: Daniel Ben-Ami
- Location: London, United Kingdom
I have worked as a professional journalist for 22 years, during which time I have contributed to numerous publications including the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Prospect, Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Times. My book on global finance, Cowardly Capitalism (Wiley, 2001), was recommended by the Baker Library of Harvard Business School . I also contributed a chapter to Cultural Difference, Media Memories: Anglo-American Images of Japan (Cassell, 1997). I am working on a book on contemporary society's unease with popular prosperity. To contact me you can email danielbenami@yahoo.com
Selected articles
- Myths of Wall Street crisis
- Alistair Darling's split personality
- Capitalism's cheerleaders lose faith
- On Indian child labour
- Fed rate cut
- Blinkered consumerism
- A global working class?
- Debate on population (p3-5 of PDF)
- A sneaky attack on prosperity
- The dangers of crying Wolfowitz
- On Davos 2007
- Worse than Scooge
- The changing meaning of equality
- American Express RED campaign
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- Culture of corruption debate
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- Enoughism? Don’t buy it
- Galbraith's Affluent Society
- Africa's 'Malthusian trap'
- Towards an age of abundance
- The Bottom Billion
- Poor Story on Africa
- Jeffrey Sachs Reith lecture
- Oliver James on "affluenza"
- Indur Goklany on human progress
- Stern report on climate change
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Avner Offer on affluence
- Enron documentary
- BBC happiness programme
- Benjamin Friedman on growth
- Jonathon Porritt on capitalism
- Jeffrey Sachs on poverty
- Blair's Commission for Africa
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- Clive Hamilton's Growth Fetish
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- China is no "green peril"
- No 'paradox of prosperity'
- Who's afraid of economic growth
- Why people hate fat Americans
- The dismal quackery of eco-economics
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- International Monetary Fund
- James Heartfield
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- Millennium Development Goals
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- Penn World Table
- Progessdaily
- Real Clear Markets
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- United Nations Development Programme
- World Bank
- World Development Indicators 2008
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- Worldwrite
- Yale Economic Growth Center
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