Tipping Points

Today the news fed me two tipping points for the price of one : Amazonia and plastics. How do climate tipping points happen? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

Hetero Highlights & Updates

real-world economics review Issue no. 104 3 July 2023 The Dead Parrot of Mainstream Economics – by Steve Keen Why Hedge Funds Matter: An interview with Jan Fichtner – by Jan Fichtner and Jamie Morgan ETF shares as shadow money – by Alexandru-Stefan Goghie The Dollar Centric Financial System and the Conflict in Ukraine – by Marcello Spanò A … Continue reading Hetero Highlights & Updates

Cop-out CoP and the elephant in the room

eco-crisis-footprint-updates here I am copping out of my CoP post. I am way off target. Instead of editing my article reviews I got lost in a meandering mishmash of a maybe essay on money, value and growth. Like “Growth! What Growth?” Trying to think (too) big was probably inspired by the Dawn of Everything. I’ve … Continue reading Cop-out CoP and the elephant in the room

DEGROWTH – ALT-, non GDP- post-growth – updates

updates here see also degrowth updates 12-2023 theguardian.com 4-12-2023 I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’– Amid the cost of living crisis and threats to the climate, many are pledging to consume less and spend sustainably – by Jem Bartholomew academia.edu gg/pdf 2016-2023 “A wealth of possibilities: Alternatives to … Continue reading DEGROWTH – ALT-, non GDP- post-growth – updates

ECO CRISIS – Climate

updates below itv.com/ 4/2021 A time-lapse video feature launched by Google Earth has drawn on nearly four decades of satellite imagery to vividly illustrate how the impact of humans and climate change have affected the planet. see also > medium.com/ 10-2023 Is the Economic System Incompatible with Climate Action? From the 1972 Limits to Growth … Continue reading ECO CRISIS – Climate

Growth! What Growth? Growth, Degrowth or Post-Growth?

Growth by Trussonomics may be history repeating a farce as a tragedy. But aggregate GDP-growth continues to be widely regarded as an absolute necessity. The recent article “Growth, Degrowth or Post-growth?” makes for a uniquely clear historical exposition of the positions around the critique of economic GdP-growth and its potential alternatives.

AFTER BABEL: Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid – Jonathan Haidt – 2022

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ >scroll down for updates 12-6-2022 “It’s not just a phase.” By Jonathan Haidt – Illustrations by Nicolás Ortega What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of … Continue reading AFTER BABEL: Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid – Jonathan Haidt – 2022

The “Selling” of DeGrowth – or how to soft sell the hardest sale ever – by John Feffer

source: John Feffer 2021 resilience.org , originally published 20-12-2021 by Foreign Policy In Focus GaiaMoney is revisiting DeGrowth for Xmas with John Feffer’s question: “Can those who advocate hitting the brakes on economic growth get their message across before it’s too late?” “Over the last three decades, a growing number of scientists and ecologists have argued … Continue reading The “Selling” of DeGrowth – or how to soft sell the hardest sale ever – by John Feffer

Adkin’s asset logics & Konings’ Spekulationskritik – a post-critical ride across neoliberal conceptualities – eine sozialtheoretische Kritik der Neoliberalismuskritik

Kapital und Zeit – Für eine neue Kritik der neoliberalen Vernunft
Capital and Time – For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason – by Martijn Koning – Lisa Adkins asset economy – articles, videos, reviews

Updates

Autumn fashion? ESG passé, bear costumes en vogue… 2024 Preview Mariana Mazzucato’s Mission-oriented Development Banks 1-12-2023 This Is Money – How to fix the housing market 4-12 -2023 Long QE – Does the Broken Bond Market Need Fixing? by The Economist 4-12-23 ‘I’m not buying new…”’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’ 12-2023 COP28 & … Continue reading Updates

ALT currencies -digital -blockchain -crypto, bitcoin, big tech, internet -social media -web3 -metaverse

gaia0geld ALT currencies -digital -blockchain -crypto -NFT( bitcoin, diem, etc) , internet -big tech- metaverse, social media, www, web3 updates 11-2023 >social media , twitter, X medium.com 11-2023 Why I’m Finally Leaving X and Probably All Social Media – by Douglas Rushkof I’m finally, definitely, fully leaving X, and probably all social media. For real, … Continue reading ALT currencies -digital -blockchain -crypto, bitcoin, big tech, internet -social media -web3 -metaverse

banking, monetary, fiscal finance – history, politics, practice, theory

> money, monetary – history, politics, theory – banking, currencies, finance, fiat, interest, monetary policy, monetary system, money system featured/selected – updates below > real existing monetary now linkedin.com Stephen Dover Global Market Perspectives blog maroonmacro.com 2022 Monetary Mechanics blog – archive medium.mpi.org 2022 hetero monetary policy blog papers.ssrn.com 2015 Understanding the Modern Monetary System … Continue reading banking, monetary, fiscal finance – history, politics, practice, theory

Rethinking Capitalism

ECONOMICS AND POLICY FOR SUSTAINABLE AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH Edited by M. JACOB and M. MAZZUCATO “A fine collection of chapters by leading progressives on what went wrong — low growth, flagging investment and innovation, too few jobs and too much carbon — and what might be done. May it close the door on the failed “mainstream” … Continue reading Rethinking Capitalism

Economics – about and around mainstream DSGE orthodox macro

Economics sometimes changes its mind? All around ortho macro – de facto, debate, diverse (self)critiques, defense, delusion, denial + disagreement – featured – updates below see also > history of economics, economics as social science > Economy, Economics, DSGE, mainstream, orthodox, macro, equilibrium, Neoliberalism, Politics, Rethinking Political Economy economist.com 6-8-2020 Economics-sometimes changes its mind Economics is a “disgrace”, … Continue reading Economics – about and around mainstream DSGE orthodox macro