Jennifer Baez
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Jennifer Baez
Balancing the national economy will require new macro-economic models that combine economic, financial, social and ecological variables. Models such as LowGrow SFC (developed by T.J. and P.A.V.), EUROGREEN and MEDEAS are already being used to project the impacts of degrowth policies, including redistributive taxes, universal public services
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Hats protocol is a way to delegate individual roles to individual people. So many of the impact networks I've been involved with have been so good at bringing large numbers of people together to address those complex issues but then when it comes down to the level of actually consistently executing to get things done, they often struggle unless... See more
BanklessDAO • Impact Networks with David Ehrlichman | Green Pill #59
One of the most disturbing facts about American marriage today is that while divorce increased at similar rates for the wealthy and the poor in the 1960s and ’70s, those rates diverged sharply starting around 1980. According to the sociologist Steven P. Martin, among Americans who married between 1975 and 1979, the 10-year divorce rate was 28
... See moreEli J. Finkel • Opinion | The All-or-Nothing Marriage (Published 2014)
Social scientists have long known that we tend to be overconfident when we evaluate ourselves. Here are some highlights of their findings: High school seniors: 70 percent report that they have "above average” leadership skills, compared with 2 percent "below average"; in the ability to get along with others, 25 percent rate themselves in the top 1
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People who suffer the most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it." To explain this peculiar phenomenon, Jost's team developed a theory of system justification. Its core idea is that people are motivated to rationalize the status quo as legitimate-even if it goes directly
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Perhaps the most striking thing I learned is that the answer to whether today’s marriages are better or worse is “both”: The average marriage today is weaker than the average marriage of yore, in terms of both satisfaction and divorce rate, but the best marriages today are much stronger, in terms of both satisfaction and personal well-being, than
... See moreEli J. Finkel • Opinion | The All-or-Nothing Marriage (Published 2014)
Emergence occurs when an entity is determined to have properties its parts do not have on their own these properties emerge only when the parts interact within a wider whole