The Music of Narcissus
by Patrick Noble
A fiddle and a cello weave in counterpoint. The fiddle sings of a redemptive future, while the cello evokes a scenic past....
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Journey to Earthland by Paul Raskin is an unusual work. It is not primarily an analysis of our present predicament or of our likely...
Entrepreneurship – the narrative of creative destruction
In the religion of economics, the entrepreneur is a hero engaged in a narrative of destructive creation. Entrepreneurs are tragically noble figures on a...
End of the “Oilocene”: The Demise of the Global Oil Industry and of...
(A pdf version of this paper is here. Please refer to my presentation for supporting images and comments. )
In 1981 I was sitting on...
World Basic Income conference, Manchester, February 4 2017
The world’s first conference on world basic income will be held in Manchester (UK) on 4th February 2017. The event will explore a new...
Lean Logic and Surviving the Future: Reviews by Mark Garavan
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Water Commoning – Extending the public debate about water policy in Ireland
Following the 2014 shift in responsibility for public water and wastewater services from Local Authorities to Irish Water, the new national utility, and the...
The Climate Crisis and Economic Policy Choices
A major issue in climate economics is whether it is possible to halt the growth in carbon emissions and to achieve, instead, a rapid...
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