• Archive for August, 2011

    The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public resource for hard times

    by  • August 6, 2011 • Everything Else • 11 Comments

    I’ve just released 4.3gb of files on State Failure and contingency management into the public domain at Archive.org. You can browse, watch and download individual files there. There is the start of a collaborative “reader’s guide” on Appropedia. You can also download the entire set as a TAR file from Archive.org or try bit Bittorrent [...]

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    How to think about survival

    by  • August 4, 2011 • Everything Else • 1 Comment

    ((from a post made to the Reddit PostCollapse forum – just kind of a braindump to help some folks out who were just starting to grapple with these problems. Survival Epistemologist!)) ((The Gupta State Failure Management Archive, 4.3gb of lectures and documents on managing state failure, is in the Public Domain and available for download.)) [...]

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    Declaring victory

    by  • August 3, 2011 • Everything Else • 0 Comments

    It’s come time for me to “declare victory” on two projects. 1) The Institute for Collapsonomics got going on this blog well over two years ago, in March 2009. The US has just narrowly avoided a sovereign default at which point there is no further need to argue about whether economic risks to the global [...]

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