Economics & Marginalia: May 3, 2024 | Center For Global ...
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Economics & Marginalia: May 3, 2024 | Center For Global ...
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
by Tyler Cowen
- Degrowth ideas sometimes go by other names, too. “Post-growth”, “Altgrowth”, “Donut Economics”, “the Wellbeing Economy”—there are a constellation of terms and intersectional approaches, which could be why this topic is so vulnerable to its language being co-opted.
from Degrowth: The Future Fashion Could Choose by good on you
Keely Adler added
- It’s no wonder that a favorite book of mine is titled: Investing: The Last Liberal Art. Though worth a read in full (and a good number of routine rereads at that), the below quote captures the book’s overarching thesis:[E]ach discipline entwines with, and in the process strengthens, every other. From each discipline, the thoughtful person draws sig... See more
from Making Dollars Using Sense by Substack
Tom White added
The
global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed.
from Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help by Jason Hickel
Jennifer Baez added
- It would be a lot more useful to measure how well the economy and its various sectors catalyze emergence of human well-being. This is not extremely easy to measure but it can be done in a way that's far less fudgy than current standard attempts to measure economic productivity.
from We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity by Ben Goertzel
sari added
The contemporary “degrowth” movement, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgios Kallis explain, isn’t against growth, per se; it calls, instead, for a critique of growth as an end in itself, for the “decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and for the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective.” [4] In other word
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Roberto Colindres added
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
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