Author: steve
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Is there a cure to stabilize an economy?
The modern economy has undoubtedly given better lives to millions. However, despite years of experience and development of macroeconomic theory, despite decades of Nobel prizes in Economics, there still doesn’t appear to be a way to run an economy without putting severe hardship on a large percentage of the population. And this state of affairs is…
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Jevons paradox bust by new emissions fee mechanism.
Many inventors’ eyes glaze over in wonder at the thought of having the opportunity to invent clean, more efficient, technology. If only there were a market for it, the most wondrous machines could be manufactured and sold at a huge profit, they reason. And pollution would stop. But more effective solutions actually, according to the…
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The community finance canvas handbook
Community Finance Design Handbook This handbook is for social economy innovators, community builders, and sustainable developers. It helps you develop communities that demonstrate people care, planet care in a way that provides the basic needs of community members. This handbook written by Stephen Hinton, acts as an introduction to thinking financially about community initiatives and…
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Suppose capitalism mimicked the way nature works.
Article updated June 6 after consideration of all the recent comments We are stuck. On the one hand you have people who talk about economic growth as being the objective of policy – necessary to be able to pay back debts and achieve prosperity. On the other hand, you have the sustainable camp that claims…
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Debating Capitalism as if it exists
In my earlier post I said that my hobby of analysing capitalism from a sustainable point of view has got me to the point where I see that capitalism is actually a grammar describing the language of money. I said that there is an intellectual class paid to talk about these issues but, like linguists who have spoken a…
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CAPITALISM HAS FAILED. Remind me; what is it exactly?
In the excellent blog, CAPITALISM HAS FAILED, on Bill Totten’s site, Sara Robinson, MS, APF points out the shortcomings of what she calls “the model”: The problem, in a nutshell, is this: The old economic model has utterly failed us. It has destroyed our communities, our democracy, our economic security, and the planet we live on.…
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Putting a price on emissions using ecological maturity impact
The price mechanism does not provide perfect information and does not necessarily lead to a perfectly efficient distribution of resources. Many argue that the low cost of externalizing pollution to the community is leading us to create a fossil-dependent infrastructure that will be obsolete before it has paid for itself. This briefing from the Swedish Sustainable economy…