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This presentation given by Caroline Whyte to the UCC Economics and Environmental Societies on October 28 includes an overview of the reasons why a...
Resilience and Collective Psychology – fast collapse or slow disintegration
In a prescient article from his 2014 book Credo, Brian Davey explores the possibility of a “cross contagion” of cascading collapse between some combination...
End of the Oilocene: The Roar of the Oil-Fizzle Dragon King
"Ireland’s policymakers exist in an insulated bubble; congratulating themselves on reducing the debt-GDP ratio and high employment due to the sleight of hand of...
2 – Plastics and Packaging Waste
Following are my responses to the questions raised by the department for consideration as part of the second meeting:
For the manufacturing/retail sector:
What role can...
The tales of history are a dead-end road
"Culture is what people do. It decays when people stop culturing. Changing a culture means changing what we do. Often, that will need a...
Psychopathology at the Limits to Economics Growth: Part Three
The Psychology of Decision Makers, Professionals and the Elite is part of “the system”
To respond rationally to a crisis of the magnitude that humanity...
Limits to economic growth?
This lecture was presented at the University of Nottingham on April 4, 2017. Please click on the slides to enlarge them.
On April 3 in...
Rumpelstiltskin, debt and economic liberty
"Modern historians have for the most part removed the ancient Near East from the mainstream of history. Modern economic systems have sanctified the payment...
Father’s Day Thoughts on Star Wars, Religion, and Basic Income
Mike Sandler draws on the work of linguist George Lakoff to argue that "maybe it’s time to rethink the conventional wisdom received from our...
Context For A Theory Of Change
Mike Sandler takes a look at some of the assumptions about society and the process of social and political change we tend to make...
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