Sublime

any economy remains constrained by its “soil and climate” or its natural resource base.

wealth and opportunity gaps and overindebtedness that have led to economic downturns

What are the values, heuristics, norms and networks that currently shape human behaviour – and how could they be nurtured or nudged, rather than ignored and eroded?

—Lester Brown

The dominant regime of political economy in the West since 1971, and particularly acute since 2009, has been built on a set of related economic fallacies: There are no adverse consequences to manipulating the price and supply of money; economic well-being can be measured by increases in flows of revenue rather than the growth rate of profit over ca

Today economists and politicians debate with confident ease in the name of economic efficiency, productivity and growth – as if those values were self-explanatory – while hesitating to speak of justice, fairness and rights.

publicly visible.

The time has come for a new social contract that recognizes humanity’s collective interest in designing a better form of prosperity for a world in which ecological limits are all too apparent and the growing gap between rich and poor is morally unconscionable.