Economics
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Autotrophic Infrastructure & How Real Work Gets Done: A Historical Dilemma
I’d like to revisit a few points I brought up in a piece that appeared here at the PRI Australia…
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Edgevertizing – the Story of the Itinerant Japanese Knife-Sharpener
by Cecilia Macaulay Knife shaperner photo by Cecilia Marginal overheads This itinerant knife sharpener does the rounds every few months…
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What the Frack is Going On?
Hungry for energy? Worried that oil is running dry and coal is getting squeezed out? Well, don’t panic — now…
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Strong Support for National Water Audit
by Ian Douglas In welcoming the call by Federal Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, for a national audit of water licence…
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Atro-City
As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever.…
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The Good News About Coal
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute During the years when governments and the media were focused on preparations for…
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When to Not Use Money – and Why
Let us imagine a fictitious mountain village — or, for that matter, any other close-knit community — that has a…
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Why Societies Fail and a Lesson from the Game of Monopoly
They say if we don’t study history, we’re destined to repeat it. Many of you will be familiar with Jared…
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The Driest Inhabited Continent on Earth is Also the World’s Biggest Water Exporter!
While the Murray-Darling Basin Authority apparently struggles to find even a paltry 7,600 gigalitres of water in its increasingly compromised…
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An Answer to the Meaning of Life
The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business. by George Monbiot: journalist,…
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