I am an Ecological-Economist doing a Postdoc in the Mathematics department at McMaster University, Canada. I research ecological time delays and economic energy flows.
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58% complete! Chris Greyson-Gaito has read 7 of 12 books.
I read this for the YSI Money View Reading Group (sadly missed the discussions). The book was really interesting and illuminating for me. I really liked the application of Gresham's law to good money and good payment systems (the differentiation was really useful for me). I also like the description of new payment systems (that I was not really aware of).
To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history …
In my urbanist volunteer work, I definitely push up against all of what Klein and Thompson are talking about of too much zoning regulation (and other laws etc) that is preventing regeneration. So it is useful to have that framework in my back of my mind while I work on improving my city. As someone who works in the ecological-economics field who regularly reads the degrowth literature, a good chunk of their criticism of degrowth felt like strawman arguments (they referenced policies that degrowthers would not actually propose). Also felt like an American exceptionalism bent which is generally fine because the audience is mostly Americans but I would have really enjoyed some other perspectives. Overall interesting (especially the references to the Rise and Decline of Nations).
Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading …
