Defining Sustainability and Sustainable Development
A sustainable economy can include a human society that delivers more good to its members, even while enriching, rather than degrading, the ecosystem we live in.
Recontexualizing Economics for Sustainability (and other topics)
A sustainable economy can include a human society that delivers more good to its members, even while enriching, rather than degrading, the ecosystem we live in.
It is time to put aside, explicitly and decisively, the objective of higher GDP. GDP measures quantity, not quality of production. GDP presumes that a growth in production is a growth in quality of life, when in fact we have reached a point that the opposite is true. Not even our current level of goods production can be sustained, much less continual increases.
Economics is perhaps most simply and comprehensively be defined as: the study of the exchange of value among humans. Why then introduce a new word, EconoSystemics? First, because we can no longer distinguish the...
In classical economics, humans engage in value transactions with an eye towards their own advantage. A plausible and useful hypothesis. Somehow presupposed is a value calculation, even if often based on fuzzy logic. Modern...
Intelligence itself has two components. One is the perception of a new possibility. The other is the organizational initiative to make that possibility a reality.
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