Showing posts with label eco-econ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eco-econ. Show all posts
Saturday, February 21, 2015

IT and productivity - two noteworthy posts from Equitable Growth

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Brad DeLong , as best I can tell, does not lead the Washington Center for Equitable growth . Along with Nick Bunker he does, however, prod...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Canopy Economics and Eco-Econ

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I wrote my Canopy Economics post in 2004 , and “eco-econ” in 2014  ( see also ). I haven’t seen these concepts filter into the mainstream, t...

Dynamic stability: struggle and balance in minds, brains, genomes, pregnancy, politics, ecosystems and economies

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The minds we experience  are based on multiple overlapping, redundant and competitive brain systems (I don’t get the term “degeneracy” btw) ...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Human pregnancy is a dynamic struggle - implications for eco-econ, corporate power and secular stagnation

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At the “ Spherical Cow ” level of simplification, human pregnancy is a dynamic tension control system , a kind of brain and gene motivated c...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Secular stagnation and the Beveridge curve - the role of frail boomer parents

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American unemployment, as economist’s measure it, is back to our post-2000 “norm”. On the other hand economic growth is low; our last quarte...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Salmon, Picketty, Corporate Persons, Eco-Econ, and why we shouldn't worry

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I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Evolutionary economics is due for a reboot

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Jupiter's red spot is a transient thing. One day the storm will dissipate -- though probably not in our lifetimes. Life is a transient ...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Michael Church's model of the corporate worker - a short critique

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Michael Church makes me look like a corporate fan. In a recent post he focused on startup culture ... Gervais / MacLeod 4: a world without...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Corporate growth and the unexpected triumph of central planning

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The American Economic Review tells us large corporations are taking up a larger share of our GDP ... The American Economic Review, Vol. 21...
Sunday, January 08, 2012

Rule 34 by Charlie Stross - my review

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I read Charlie Stross's Rule 34 . Here's my 5 star Amazon review (slightly modified as I thought of a few more things): Rule 34 is...
Saturday, December 03, 2011

Ants, corporations and the great stagnation

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Do the great stagnation failures of the research enterprise and the modern publicly traded corporation have the same roots? Are not both ...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Separated at birth: alternative medicine and climate change denial

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As a colleague and I corresponded about my support for  the scientific consensus on CO2 driven climate change , I realized I was replaying  ...
Monday, April 11, 2011

The debt ceiling: Can Goldman Sachs win if the US defaults?

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The GOP is expected to blackmail the Democratic party by holding the American economy hostage . This isn't news;  Bruce Bartlett has bee...
Saturday, January 08, 2011

Is the GOP truly a pawn of corporations and the wealthy? We'll find out soon.

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Charlie Stross says emergent corporate entities control America . Krugman says wealth alone is sufficient explanation , emergent entities ar...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Speculation: The corporate ecosystem and American stasis

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To speculate is to "form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence" [1]. My speculation tagged posts are thing...
Friday, February 06, 2009

Natural selection and executive compensation

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Imagine a world of sterile herbivores. No predators, no reproduction. Some are better at running, some are better at calculus, and some are ...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Canopy Economics

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Google Search: "canopy economics" I was thinking about economics the other day. I used to think of the economy in terms of plate...