Economics
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Food Forests, Part 1: Ronald Reagan’s Day Off
Save Ferris! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was a 1986 movie about a teenager, his girlfriend and best mate — all…
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James Kalb Interviews Nikos Salingaros on Architecture’s Influence on Society and Consumerism
Interview by James Kalb of The Philidelphia Society, August 2011 Home sweet home? Nikos Salingaros, the mathematician and architectural theorist,…
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The Self-Attribution Fallacy
Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic…
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The Story of Broke
We’ve seen The Story of Stuff, The Story of Electronics and The Story of Cap & Trade. Now Free Range…
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Reasons to Be Fearful
Click for larger image Courtesy: Marc Roberts Fear of state reaction is keeping the numbers down. Without it there might…
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Take the Money Out of Politics!
We’ve been watching our leaders sell out to corporate, extractive interests for so long, it’s almost numbingly normal to us.…
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A Design for Life
Click for larger view Courtesy: Marc Roberts If I wasn’t so used to such oxymoronic statements, I’d have already fallen…
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Sucking Out Our Brains Through Our Eyes
Advertising trashes our happiness and trashes the planet. And my income depends on it. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic…
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Maarten Stapper: “Agricultural Science and Technology is Stuck in a Rut” (IPC10 Presentation Video)
I’ve been a fan of Maarten Stapper’s work for a while now. In fact, further below you’ll find an article…
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Show Me The Money
We have a democratic right to know who is funding public advocacy. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental…
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Roads to Ruin
A new road-building programme will drain money from essential services. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political…
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Learning from China: Why the Existing Economic Model Will Fail
by Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute For almost as long as I can remember we have been saying that the…
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