Sublime

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 t

How can a society predicated on the conviction that individuals can only be evaluated in reference to the average ever create the conditions for understanding and harnessing individuality?

This is typical of subsistence societies,

She thought of him as a source of knowledge rather than experience; a good, though not contemporary mind, a person rather than a man.

he says there's a blind spot as the overwhelming mythology methodology for research in economics

has been to take observations over a short period time as if cause and effect sit on top

The most important question in twenty-first-century economics may well be what to do with all the superfluous people.

Public parks as we now know them were first laid out in the 1830s, but they were initially privately financed by various means.

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