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Principles of Political Economy,

That same year, the US joined other leading industrial countries to set up the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with its first priority being to achieve ‘the highest sustainable economic growth’ – aiming to sustain not the environment but output growth.

If the economy is constantly evolving, how best can we steward its process? Learn to find the ‘leverage points’, said Donella Meadows – those places in a complex system where making a small change in one thing can lead to a big change in everything.

Ce livre réunit les principaux éclairages que j’ai découverts en chemin, éclairages que j’aurais aimé rencontrer lorsque j’ai entamé mes études et qui, à mon avis, devraient faire partie de la boîte à outils de tout économiste. Il s’inspire de diverses écoles de pensée : économie de la complexité, économie écologique, féministe, institutionnelle et

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

These are all highly contestable statements.

Quand le marché évolue sans contraintes, il dégrade le monde vivant en surexploitant les ressources de la Terre et en la surchargeant de déchets. Il ne parvient pas non plus à fournir les biens publics essentiels – de l’éducation aux routes en passant par les vaccins – dont dépend en profondeur son propre succès.

every time humanity has shifted to a new stage, it has invented a new way to collaborate, a new organizational model.

François Quesnay publia son Tableau économique, avec