Volume 3(3), 2015
ICT’S POTENTIAL IN REDUCING GHG EMISSIONS THROUGH SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES
ABSTRACT. The material gathered in this study provides a rich and diverse context for understanding possible positive environmental advantages allowed by IT and the social arrangements that associate to sustainability. The results of the current study converge with prior research on the capacity of ..
ICT INNOVATION, INTERNET SUSTAINABILITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ABSTRACT. The objective of this paper is to emphasize the challenge of sustainability in the global economy, community and environment, the character of environmental sustainability in the information era, and the link between ICTs, the Internet and sustainable development. Applying new conceptual a..
TOWARD A POLITICAL THEORY OF SOCIAL INNOVATION: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE AND THE CO-CREATION OF SOCIAL GOODS
ABSTRACT. This paper proposes a political theory of social innovation. The paper begins by introducing and reviewing recent claims made for the ways in which social innovation can co-create public goods and services by utilizing forms of collection intelligence (CI) and CI Internet-based platforms. ..
MORALITY AND THE FREE MARKET ECONOMY
ABSTRACT. What this essay reaffirms is that there is an intimate (logical) connection between morality (ethics) and liberty since moral choices must be made freely, not coerced. Coerced conduct cannot be morally good or bad (which is why hostages are not blamed for complying with the orders of their..
THE PITFALLS OF THE EUROZONE’S MODEL OF ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
ABSTRACT. The euro crisis has called into question the structure of inter-state compromises on which the European Union was based and that the 2009 Lisbon Treaty finally formalized. Those compromises created a Eurozone distinct from the EU, with a centralized monetary policy and a multiplicity of na..