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Joseph Robertson is a poet, essayist, editor and photographer, and the founder and director of Casavaria Publishing. He is editor-in-chief of CafeSentido.com the news, politics, art, culture and exhibits project and its primary writer-reporter. He is also the creator and director of TheHotSpring.com, an online forum dedicated to developing paradigm-shift technological innovations and crafting complex policy proposals for economic and political crises.

He writes in English and Spanish (as well as explorations in other languages), has taught a humanities seminar at Villanova University, where he completed his MA in Spanish Language and Literature, and is a long-time student of philosophy. Joseph Robertson is acknowledged by Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), in the preface to the book Plan B, for his translations of EPI ecology reports, into Spanish.

His first book in print is Breves penumbras, a collection of his poetry in original Spanish. His work is devoted to expanding the expressive quality of the human experience, and to cultivating interest in the meaningful complexities which often go without comment or comprehension, but which are largely responsible for all forms of human dignity.

His second book is also a collection of poetry in Spanish, Otro posible desvo de lo esperado, and was presented to the public in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2007. His third collection of poetry is also nearing its final editorial stages and will be entitled Jaguar y cascada.

His first published book in English is scheduled for early 2009, a collection of essays on aesthetics and social philosophy, entitled Cave Painting: aesthetics and the making of meaning. Later in 2009, expect the publication of Ptarmigan: a novel in verse miniatures.

Politics, News & Issues > Economic News Trickle-down economics

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We have surpassed the "trickle-down" theory and entered a new era of generative economics. To understand the relevance and virtues of Barack Obama economic vision, we have to look at the long history of struggle between American laissez-faire capitalism and American middle-class capitalism. We are on the verge of what is likely to be a comprehensive philosophical shift in economic policy toward generative investment, which means counting as economic imperatives the resilience and productive expansion of the positive bases of economic growth, i.e. human and environmental health and well-bei...

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