End the Burning – Begin the Growing
As I look across our fields I can see the deepening, or paling green of rotations. The deeper the colour, the swifter the flow...
The Future Monetary Ecosystem
Over the next generation or two, there will be increasingly visible turf wars between money-suppliers with four very different motivations. It’s not really a...
Three generations left: human activity and the destruction of the planet: review
The author of this book, Dr Christine Parkinson, was first inspired to write about climate change while visiting social missions organised by women around...
Economics as priesthood – a religion based on assumptions
Some of the ridiculous assumptions on which much of mainstream economics is constructed are explored in this chapter – for example the methodology that...
Feasta week in Kerry
We still have some places available for our annual week-long workshop at Rossbeigh in Kerry, which will take place at the end of June...
A thinkery on water, anti-privatisation struggles and the commons
Expressed in slogans such as “water is a human right”, “water is life”, “we are water” and “defend the sacred”, throughout the globe a...
Brexit and complexity
Complexity is probably the chief problem of Brexit…
There’s a line in the song “Hotel California” by the Eagles that reminds me of the Brexit...
The Joke
by Patrick Noble.
It is a great joke, that the deepest commons have been passed on in daylight, unnoticed by thought police, secret police and...
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...
Limits to Incentives
Means of exchange are never neutral as orthodox economists assume. Intentional Currencies* respond by being explicit about the values they seek to promote and...
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