Sublime

One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows – one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report – and she didn’t mince her words. ‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture,’ she declared in the late 1990s; ‘we’ve got to have an enough.’ In response to t

In 1999, Angola’s rulers spent $900 million in oil revenues to purchase weapons. Never mind that one child in three dies before the age of five and life expectancy is a shocking forty-two years.

money and its big brother, gross domestic product (GDP), are poor measures of well-being and happiness.33 Other indicators of social health and happiness not only exist, but are far more revealing. The Human Development Index published by the United Nations Development Programme bundles national income with data about health and education. The Gend

Dans le monde des homards, il existe une prime au vainqueur, exactement comme dans les sociétés humaines, où les 1 % de personnes les plus riches cumulent autant de richesses que les 50 % de plus pauvres11, et où les quatre-vingt-cinq personnes les plus aisées ont autant que les trois millions et demi d’indigents.

A team of researchers at Stanford University, led by an economist named Raj Chetty, used newly accessible data from the Internal Revenue Service to write a series of papers that addressed questions of opportunity in American life. One, titled “The Fading American Dream,” asked a simple question: How likely is it that an American child will be bette

Specifically, we have set low and high values of a DALY at $1,000 and $5,000,