Economy

Reeve and Serfs

Updates to my book The Divide

Recent research has found that we have more than enough productive capacity to end poverty forever and ensure good lives for all 8 billion people on this planet – with even less resources and energy than we presently use, thus also achieving our ecological goals – if production was organized around human needs rather than capital accumulation.

December 2, 2024

Lifeboats from the RMS Titanic are uploaded to the RMS Carpathia in the hours after the sinking (1912).

President of the Titanic

Those coming into power now on a worldwide wave of discontent appear to understand little about the ultimate underlying causes of that discontent.

December 1, 2024

Fifty billion Zimbabwean dollars

Inflation through the Lens of the Trophic Theory of Money

We can choose to stop the economic growth machine and keep it idling in a steady state, preserving the little environmental integrity that remains, before the machine is forced to a halt. This will require thinking outside the box and using monetary policy tools unconventionally.

November 26, 2024

the good life

Decoupling ‘The Good Life’ from Capitalism

I want ‘The Good Life’ to be inclusive of everyone, to be truly pluralistic in not leaving anyone behind across ideological and geographic lines.

November 25, 2024

E-Waste_Landfill

Subsidies

I am not sure that my employer quite understands the changes that have been set in motion. The gossip chain spread that story within days. Now, we all know that we have leverage. We can demand. Wouldn’t it be great if such a thing were to happen in your community! So what’s stopping you…

November 22, 2024

weaving regenerative cultures

An Emerging Third Option: Reclaiming Democracy from Dark Money & Dark Tech

In short — the key to the profound changes that our current polycrisis is calling for lies in the cultivation of the social soil. Every one of us can be (and is) a gardener or farmer of that soil.

November 22, 2024

horticulture

Envisioning a Livable Future

Most big-think essays like this end on a note of inspiration and hope. For once, I’ll resist the temptation to go that route. Can we humans make ourselves useful to the rest of life? It’s an open question.

November 21, 2024

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