A sharing economy?

  Today, the owners of AirBnB, Über and similar web based platforms, are minting money on the supposed pillars of a ‘sharing economy’. Like much of what emanates from Wall Street, it is anything but ‘sharing’. It is web-based raw blooded capitalism. Pure and simple. For examples of what really constitutes a sharing economy, region... Continue Reading →

History rhymes in Catalonia

Given the relatively large size of the nation states France and Spain, the region north of the Ebro and the mountain range of the Pyrenees are generally seen as ‘peripheral’. A long way from Paris and Madrid. For centuries, Aragon and Catalonia were joined as one, as were regions on both sides of the eastern... Continue Reading →

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