International Development:
1) Bono & Co’s Red campaign spends up to $100 million on marketing, while reaping only $18 million, so claims Advertising Age. A response in The Independent here. If shopping is not the solution to the world’s poverty, then maybe this is: Buy (Less). Give More.
2) Who should foot the bill on Climate Change: Rich or poor countries?
3) Radar on Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
Politics & Economics:
4) Twenty Myths about Markets.
5) The Post-Autistic Economics Review on the endogenous growth theory.
6) Responses to Paul Krugman on Milton Friedman.
Progressive Christianity:
7) In ages past, radical Christians sought to follow Christ in a whole-hearted and vividly countercultural way. Now, we have the new monasticism.
8) Jim Wallis thinks the Religious Right’s era is over.
9) Evangelical’s work in Africa criticized.
Others:
10) How to become vegetarian – and help save the environment – in six easy steps.