How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street | The Ticket – Yahoo! News luntzisms

Infants prefer a nasty moose if it punishes an unhelpful elephant | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine “Instead, they can tell the difference between appropriate reward and punishment according to the context. To me this says that toddlers already have more or less adult moral understanding. Isn’t this amazing?”

The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value – Forbes “In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has exploded while corporate performance has declined. “Maximizing shareholder value” turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure.”

Is Modern Capitalism Sustainable? – Kenneth Rogoff – Project Syndicate “The truth of the matter is that, for now at least, the only serious alternatives to today’s dominant Anglo-American paradigm are other forms of capitalism.”

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix – IEEE Spectrum “In 1956, AT&T had agreed to a U.S government consent decree that prevented the company from selling products not directly related to telephones and telecommunications, in return for its legal monopoly status in running the country’s long-distance phone service. So Unix could not be […]