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When Sharing Becomes Unstoppable

By Staff Reports | September 14, 2012

money

How magical does the world appear when witnessing the unstoppable spread of human generosity? It seems that everywhere I turn people are discovering the joy of sharing; from giving free hugs, to distributing excess produce or holding a National Sharing Day. The scientific studies continue to report the welcome news: there is immense value in sharing, especially for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education, Gifts Tagged With: economics, Free Money Day, gift, gift economy, Post Growth Institute, share, sharing

Weekly Wisdom: EF Schumacher on non-violent economics

By Staff Reports | July 11, 2012

EF Schumacher

Modern economics does not distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable materials, as its very method is to equalize and quantify everything by means of a money price. Thus, taking various alternative fuels, like coal, oil, wood, or water-power: the only difference between them recognized by modern economics is relative cost per equivalent unit. The cheapest is automatically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Wisdom Tagged With: Buddhism, economics, EF Schumacher, fossil fuels, renewable energy

A course to keep you from crashing

By Erik Curren | December 8, 2011

collapsing villa in Finland

If you still think professional economists have any authority left to talk about finance, debt and banking, remember that most of them failed to predict the Great Recession of 2008. Then consider how many of those same financial experts have been saying on and off since the crash that the economy has entered a recovery, even if only a "jobless" one. Recovery? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Chris Martenson, economics, economists, futurology, Great Recession

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