Lecture, Cass Business School, February 6, 2013 At a lecture at London’s Cass Business School, Lord Adair Turner broke ranks and called for an end to allowing private banks to create the nation’s money: instead, turning this vital function over to the government as money-creator. Turner proposed that governments …
Ecocities Emerging – February 2013 Issue
Link to webpage version of this newsletterhttp://archive.constantcontact.com/fs072/1100594 Ecocities Emerging To support humanity’s transition into the Ecozoic Era Ecocity Builders February 2013 Greetings, For many years now we’ve seen headline grabbing debate — and efforts to kill the conversation — about climate change. But at the same time, …
Video – Finances vs Economy, Credit vs Money
Presentation by Wall Street financial analyst Michael Hudson, president of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, and author of The Bubble and Beyond (2012), for the summit on Modern Money Theory, Rimini, Italy. Click here to …
Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries
by Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockström, Club of Rome, November 2012 Report suggests measures that could prevent the current depletion of the earth’s finite resources and enable us to enjoy an enhanced quality of life. Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries, by Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockström, a report to …
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein – A Short Film
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein – A Short Film Directed by Ian MacKenzie http://ianmack.com Produced by Velcrow Ripper, Gregg Hill, Ian MacKenzie READ THE BOOK http://sacred-economics.com Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, …
Green Expo: Are You Green? Find out at informative seminars about building, energy, transportation, environment, agriculture and economics.
The Southern Green Living Expo will offer informative seminars about “being green” during the Southern Green Living Expo, September 14-16, 2012, held in downtown Asheville at the U.S. Cellular Center, formerly known as the Civic Center. Click for more information.
Book Review: ‘Why Nations Fail’
This magisterial book is a tour throughout the world and our human history, examining the persistent puzzle of why some countries successfully industrialized and others failed. MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, a political scientist and economist at Harvard, go beyond economics and its centuries of hypothesizing about …
MSc in Sustainability (Green Economics) Apply now for September 2012
MSc Environmental Sustainability (Green Economics) Apply now! MSc Course starts in September 2012 This course provides you with the analytical, written, presentation and publishing skills and experience to lead others towards your vision of a socially and environmentally more survivable and just, positive and exciting future. It gives you the …
S*** happens: The economics version
S*** Happens: the economics version Yoram Bauman www.standupeconmist.com American Economic Association Humor Session, Chicago, January 7, 2012
Video of the Day: Charles Eistenstein on Sacred Economics
Video of the Day: Charles Eistenstein on Sacred Economics Directed by Ian MacKenzie ; Produced by Velcrow Ripper, Gregg Hill, Ian MacKenzie “Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, …