Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Carnival of the Capitalists: The Late Not-Final Edition (Updated x3)
Submitted a post and don’t see it here? Please put the info in a comment or e-mail it to deb -at- accidentalverbosity -dot- com to be added to this emergency edition of CotC.
There’s no rhyme or reason to the order of the posts this week, since I tossed this together in something of a hurry. May the chaos lead you to stumble across a post you wouldn’t have noticed otherwise…
Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World, the host of next week’s Carnival, supplies for this edition an intriguing piece on how to get your business noticed by the media--in a good way.
Meanwhile, our very own Jay Solo points out a clever marketing campaign, using it to launch a discussion of his own marketing situation and seek input.
Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends remarks on President Reagan’s understanding of the challenges faced by entrepreneurs.
Over at Photon Courier, Dave is taking about the career lessons to be drawn from the experiences of several successful businesswomen in the Washington (DC) area.
Interested Participant lends perspective to the struggle of a company to remain in the marketplace in spite of signifcant changes to that marketplace created by shifting international trade agreeements, courtesy of the WTO.
Speaking of regulation, Johnathan Wilde at Catallarchy contributes a fascinating post on how government regulation of businesses has a tendency to lead to “agency capture”.
Rob at BusinessPundit is musing on how creativity can suffer when one gets too wrapped up in operations. I know that feeling!
Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind is waxing philosophical about the future of free enterprise.
If you’ve been wondering exactly how poor Europe is, Martin Lindeskog at EGO has the answer for you.
President Reagan, a Centrist? Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture thinks so, at least when it comes to economic policy, and posts about it here.
Professor Bainbridge is reviewing recent research on labor controlled firms, finding that they tend to underperform firms managed so as to maximize shareholder wealth.
At OSCommerce Experts, they’re talking about how to find your niche in e-commerce. Sometimes thinking small can beat thinking big…
If you missed it, last week’s CotC was at The Window Manager. Next week’s will be hosted by Blog Business World, and Wayne is receiving your entries at the usual capitalists -at- elhide -dot- com alias.
Update: Don’t miss Les Jones’s Tuesday E-commerce Report: Tog on E-Commerce.
Second update: “A discussion of the fallacies surrounding the political arguments of income distribution...” over at QandO.
Steve Verdon has got a post that applies the theory of the (competitive) firm to some actual legislation here in California requiring firms of various sizes to offer health benefits.
Third update: I’ll just let the title of this post from voluntaryXchange speak for itself: Economics and Sadomasochistic Altruism. And yes, the post is as good as the title.
Thanks to everybody who submitted, resubmitted, and got the word out about this special emergency edition of the Carnival. I’m going to quit adding entries to this post; however, if we are still missing your submission for this week, feel free to link it in the comments. If you prefer, or if you have an entry for the upcoming edition, please send it to capitalists -at- elhide -dot- com to be included in the June 21 Carnival hosted by Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World.
See you there.