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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben • 3 highlights
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Leyla Acaroglu • Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies
A few examples include: Greed is good. Maximizing pleasure from consumption is the goal. A billion acts of selfishness will lead to a prosperous society. The social duty of business is just to maximize its profits. There’s no such thing as society, only individuals—that was Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote. Markets are efficient; other institutions
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Riparian rights are the rights of a landowner to the reasonable use of water that flows through or adjacent to his or her property.
Jim Bainbridge • California Real Estate Principles and License Preparation
It’s really quite straightforward. Right now, the dominant assumption in economics is that all sectors of the economy must grow, all the time, regardless of whether or not we actually need them to. This is an irrational way to manage an economy at the best of times, but during an ecological emergency it is clearly dangerous. Instead, we should
... See moreJason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Anti-business billionaires philosophy: prioritizing product quality and company control over financial metrics, exemplified by Dyson's journey through repeated failures
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He's got a very unique philosophy on company building that I think is important to put out there. The way I would describe this is anti billionaires And maybe it anti as usual billionaires but I think anti billionaires is better like branding And it's people that are so obsessed with the quality of the products that they're making and they
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