by L J Furman, MBA on January 29, 2010
in Climate Change, Coal, Connecting the Dots, Deep Economy, Ecological Economics, Ecology, Energy, Energy Economics, NeoClassical Economics, Outside the Box, Systems Thinking
In his State of the Union Address <video, transcript Englsh, en español>, President Obama said “The best anti-poverty program is a world classeducation watch free the king’s speech online .” He described a positive, or reinforcing, feedback loop. Education enables people to accomplish more, earn more, and better educate their children, who also accomplish more [...]
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I have a good full-time job. I buy the health insurance my Human Resources Dept tells me to buy. (This is not, by the way, a “free market” as described by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and other neo-classical economists.) I pay enough that I could be driving a Hummer about [...]
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