My post on new thinking on the Complexity Economics suggested by the need for better conceptual models for reading economic data discussed at the INET - Bretton Woods conference, was also generously reposted on The Capital Institute Blog. This is to add to that what Soros said about economic complexity in the opening session of […]
This is a slightly edited version of my comment on Andy Revkin’s NY Times Dot Earth blog, on “Rationalization masquerades as reason”
The odd rationalization of them all is that what we ask the economy to do by spending money has no environmental impact… if we don’t see it. It’s illogical, but is actually how […]
Reposted as a guest blog entry at the Capital Institute
The recent INET meeting at Bretton Woods organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) with support from people like George Soros, brought together a large group of leading creative economists and ecological systems scientists, to push the envelope in discussing how to reorganize the […]
Herman Daly offers his view of what a “steady state economy” is and how to use the term in a guest blog post on the Capital Institute website. I agree that understanding the meaning is more important than exactly what name you use, but there are important types if “steady states” not yet being discussed.
My […]
[note: a draft for a wider business audience, with all new graphs, is “A decisive moment for investing in sustainability“]
For “what to do” from an environmental and systems science view, see also the 6/10/11 notes for Alex Jakulin’s Foo Camp talk on my work and my various discussions of the natural limit for money that […]
Our oil addiction, like all addictions, became a physical trap. It’s one of needing to consume ever more of the affordable supplies that are running out with pollution effects that will permanently disrupt the earth’s climate, to achieve an evidently false image of economic ’stability”. It’s a common natural signal for growth systems, that points […]
Dan Ariely gave a recent talk on some of his new “Predictably Irrational” research. It stimulated my thinking to ask, using his approach, “What beliefs do people not dare check?”. The example below suggests that is a problem for the green movement, regarding why it has been ineffective in slowing the growth of economic impacts. […]
Deep ecology is a natural philosophy that recognizes the nature and its parts as living systems that have their own worth, independent of the services they provide for humans. It was named by and perhaps best described in the work of Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss. As a practical approach to life it involves systems thinking, […]
John & all,
John, your new post on the food crisis, “As Goes Egypt”, is great. To me how to connect economic theory with the natural world starts with learning how to read the behaviors of the system as a whole, looking for things no one has any theory for. That includes strains that are not […]
Leland, Thanks for forwarding Christine Harper’s (Bloomberg Jan 31) notes on “The lonliest man in Davos…” reporting from the meeting of the World Economic Forum.
It all sounds like the very same script pulled from the drawer at every stage of history, outsiders trying to confront regulators at the limit of their imaginations just before each […]