Category «Economy»

A theory to explain everything

Copied from NE – nakedemperor.substack.com Naked Emperor is a newsletter on Substack by @nakedemperor. It covers topics such as corona and geo-politics with a mix of psychology, philosophy, law and ancient mysteries1. The author writes articles on a range of interesting topics including Covid, Politics, Finance, Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Technology and Ancient Mysteries I’m constantly looking for …

Delayering in a Shrinking Economy

In a discussion on Tim Morgan’s blog, he says: … de-layering is going to eliminate huge numbers of white-collar jobs, and lots of intermediate/intermediary businesses, though I doubt if even the biggest corporate players really understand this yet. Not a subject which is reported much.  And yet layering was a key element of the growing …

An enlightening discussion between Nate Hagens and Kate Raworth

About Doughnut Economics and much more Copied from Nate Hagens’s podcast The Great Simplification. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Nate’s Introduction Today, I am joined by the creator of Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth, for a fantastic primer on the need for different economic measurements beyond the material wealth created by a society. As we expand further past planetary boundaries …

Polycrisis, Unraveling, Simplification, or Collapse: Coming Soon to a Planet Near You?

by Richard Heinberg, originally published by Resilience.org June 15, 2023 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the resulting disruption of multiple global supply chains, policy think tanks have increasingly adopted the term polycrisis to signify humanity’s destabilized status quo. The World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Risk Report uses the …

The End of Fossil Fuel-Based Growth

The President of the EU Commission has announced that “a growth model based on fossil fuels is obsolete.” Nate Hagens discusses this in his Great Simplification project. https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/31-reflections-on-beyond-growth Von der Leyen was speaking at a European Parliament-hosted event in Brussels entitled “Beyond Growth” whose main theme was how to reconcile economic development with environmental goals. …

It is my personal perspective at the moment that our entire world is in a governing crisis, and that this governing crisis concerns, mainly, the fundamental legitimacy of our governing systems.  

From James Martin at the Deep Transformation Network: https://youtu.be/ZtNnX1JWQ4g That is, we have a global — or planet-wide — crisis of governing. This is widely understood. But what is not widely understood is that government is non-identical with governance, and that governments are manifestations of a state system (called ‘government’) which are ‘globally’ held in …