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Recent history is, for garden and park visitors, a much less happy one.43 Providing open spaces was – unlike education, libraries or social services – never a statutory duty imposed on local authorities by law. When governments in the last quarter of the twentieth century and especially since 2010 started to try to cut public expenditure, they
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There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974
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to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of
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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
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
