Posted on May 17, 2008 by mousomer
Prof. Robert Nadeau, through Scientific American claims that current economic theory is a severe (and irrational) hindrance to fighting global warming.
(the exact link is:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=brother-can-you-spare-me-a-planet ).
The claim is:
Current (neo-classical) economics is based on false premises.
These false premises include this important premise: That nature is irrelevant to economic growth (and that natural resources are boundless).
Because the irrelevance [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by mousomer
From Janne in Osaka - when does a political party become mindless?
And a study in the benefits of bounded rationality from the New York Times: sometimes, learning is costly, so it’s only for the environmentally challenged. Hey, damn it! We humans are environmentally challenged. Are we smart enough for it?
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by mousomer
The couple of avid readers I have (dear, dear people, what’s life worth without you?) might have noticed my month long silence. I wasn’t home. I was in Miluim. Military reserve duty.
I was in the Palestinian Occupied territories. It was hell, for all the wrong reasons. I should (and will) write about it soon. But [...]
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