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Cary Coglianese and Evan Mendelson (Penn): Meta-Regulation and Self-Regulation. From The Fibreculture Journal, a special issue on Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures. The UN report “World Economic and Social Survey 2012: In Search of New Development Finance” proposes an international tax to raise more than $400 billion annually for development and global challenges such as fighting climate change. From Businessweek, Peter Coy on the case for way more mandates. Life without sex: Rachel Hills on the third phase of the asexuality movement. A review of Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914 by James Simpson. Post-colonial killing fields: Conrad Black on the world picture, after independence. A review of Maps of Utopia: H.G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture by Simon J. James. Kenneth Waltz is not crazy, but he is dangerous: Nuclear weapons in the Middle East. From The Royal Forums, here are news from the latest Royal genealogy threads. Following Barclays' scandal, Joseph Stiglitz says “send bankers to jail”. Soccer and the key to the universe: You didn’t have to look very hard to read the fortunes of Europe in the Euro 2012 tournament.