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Will Food Sovereignty Starve the Poor and Punish the Planet?

by Gilles Billen, Luis Lassaletta and Josette Garnier Globalisation is not only a matter of clothing and mobile phones. Long-distance worldwide shipping of food commodities has also increased tremendously over the last few decades. Lassaletta et al. (2014) estimate that one-third of all proteins (a proxy for the nutritive potential ...

Critiquing Gary North’s attack on Bitcoin as a Ponzi Scheme

In response to Gary North’s November 29, 2013 article, “Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History“: “I hereby make a prediction: Bitcoins will go down in history as the most spectacular private Ponzi scheme in history“ - If it were a private Ponzi scheme, it’d be illegal, and would already be prosecuted, just like […]