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Some sort of economic concept

Post by Tero » Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:18 pm

I did not quite get it. Anybody familiar with this work?
http://www.amazon.com/New-Currency-Mone ... rp_title_4

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Re: Some sort of economic concept

Post by PsychoSerenity » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:08 am

No, but when I get the time I'll check out the author's blog. :tup:
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Re: Some sort of economic concept

Post by Tero » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:21 am

Still fuzzy
This kind of myth busting exercise is precisely what’s needed to help take the sustainability debate to a more constructive level. By cutting through vague notions and blind faith in technology, Jackson leaves little room for economists and policy makers to continue side-stepping the monumental problem of resource depletion in an economy programmed to grow endlessly.
http://www.newcurrency.org/blog/global- ... /#more-333

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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:31 am

We had a one-post member here with a copypasta post about the same thing - can't remember his name or whether he got banned as a spammer or just ridiculed - I suspect the latter! :shifty:
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Re: Some sort of economic concept

Post by Tero » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:38 am

Jordan maybe?

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Post by Strontium Dog » Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:19 am

Sounds like the sort of gormless shit Fact-Man spouts.
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Re: Some sort of economic concept

Post by PsychoSerenity » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:17 am

Tero wrote:Still fuzzy
This kind of myth busting exercise is precisely what’s needed to help take the sustainability debate to a more constructive level. By cutting through vague notions and blind faith in technology, Jackson leaves little room for economists and policy makers to continue side-stepping the monumental problem of resource depletion in an economy programmed to grow endlessly.
http://www.newcurrency.org/blog/global- ... /#more-333
Well you can download Prosperity Without Growth for free as a .pdf report from the now defunct Sustainable Development Commission here. I'm not sure how different the report is to the book - it seems to have half the number of pages, but I imagine more statistics and graphs. I've started reading it twice but not yet got around to reading it through.
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