The frightening battles in Egypt have Americans peppering museums with questions about what’s going on there. At the same time, antiquities authorities in Egypt are warning museums and auction houses to be on the alert for peop…
Worried about the meaning of existence? You might want to check out Raj Patel’s best-selling book The Value of Nothing. Its message about how we value — and misvalue — the world and ourselves charts a middle path toward a society in which our economic choices aren’t dominated by Big Brother or big corporations.
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Buddhist Economics? Raj Patel Suggests a New Way to Define Value originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:30:00.
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