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work of Harvard economist and philosopher Amartya Sen in the 1980s, which led to the adoption of the Human Development Index by the UN Development Program. Sen urged the measurement not of commodities but of capabilities, the achievement of human potential. The Human Development Index is a crude attempt to do this, combining GDP with life expectanc
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It is a principal function of society to validate titles and to assure their perpetual recognition.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
This was a direct challenge to a core thesis of the classical economists: “Savings are always beneficial because they allow greater accumulation of capital.
Michael Pettis • The Great Rebalancing
The economy is not a closed static equilibrium system; it is a system perpetually open to novel behavior, and complexity economics forces us to keep this in mind.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
And nowhere else should it be so evident that poverty- once it has become modernized-has become resistant to treatment with dollars alone and requires an institutional revolution.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Education)
with self-transcendence (having concern for the wellness of all).
Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
Podcast with W. Brian Arthur about Complexity Science and the economy
Or see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC_OFXXgZW4&t=1301s
Brian Arthur's bio at the Sante Fe Institute
At the end, he argues that Capitalism is most likely the best system we have, but he suggests that we need to shift from an “I” orientation to a more “We” orientation an
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