Open Access #### read the article on current issue 173 of Radical Philosophy

as it will take me some time to go through the concepts behind the 'Cognitive Capitalism'. Even though, I strongly believe that a new perspective from a successful point of view (in terms of models to study and maybe adopt) could come following David Brady. An American folk, a sociologist that has studied in depth poverty and the welfare system.

here's his CV. This is the introduction on google books of his seminal work 'Rich Democracies Poor People' is really worth a reading. What i found interesting is the fact that now he's off to Berlin at the WZB, a social research centre, to study the way Germany has dealt with the crisis in social terms and why it has probably the highest workers' wage in the world, very strong unions combined with a strong welfare state.

Commercially the position of Germany is strongly debated, some says it's even benefiting from the Eurozone crisis. What interests me though more than the economics here, is the model Germany can offer in terms of innovation. If the Silicon Valley is a model we surely need to look at, I want to stress the fact that there are alternative models where innovation and entrepreneurship have been successfully nourished.