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In Orman’s calculus, all prior economistic metaphors are collapsed: life is not just a business. Rather, money is alive—a life force in itself.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Hours reductions serve multiple purposes.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Money is the minimal information that captures the social truth of the value of time and energy.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
A study of eighteen rich democracies found that single mothers outside the United States were not poorer than the general population.
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Any form of economy should be subject to the requirement of providing a good quality of life for all Americans in an ecologically sustainable way.
Juliet Schor • A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century (Open Media Series)
Scarcity Is a Choice
Ezra Klein • Abundance
World Institute for Development Economics Research, in the late 1980s, for a project whose core question was how the macro-economy would differ if we were to take ecological limits seriously.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the mid-1970s was as equally distributed as at any time in the country’s history.