eco-nomics: disrupted

The thing about economics is this:

It stems from the Greek, "oikos", for home, hearth, surroundings, environment. Not from anything to do with money. Fancy that. So ...

eco-logy: knowledge of the home, hearth, surroundings, environment
eco-nomics: management of the home, hearth, surroundings, environment

Worth a thought. Maybe not so diametrically opposed after all. (We'll gloss over the economic doofus who informed me some years ago that he couldn't support my programme to help businesses become greener because "environmental input does not equal economic output". Oh, how silly we were to think otherwise. )

And worth hunting some of these fab people out. Oh, and try Ecosia rather than the G***Gle thing. Make everything count.

Check out our recent presumption-poking event on reclaiming economics here  ...


Also check out: www.bank.green
and: /good-with-money.com/2022/10/12/revealed-britains-worst-banks-for-emissions-and-the-best/




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Kate Raworth's recent talk on doing business in the doughnut at Futurefest2018, London

And you can get a six minute version of doughnut brilliance just here. :)

​Thinking disruptively

Ha Joon Chang. We love HJ. He says everything you know in your bones but thought you were too confused to ask about. You're weren't confused. You were right.

Kate Raworth. Brilliant woman. Common sense, cubed.

Annie Leonard nails it. The rules of the game are *the wrong ones*. Doh. Now it's ridiculously clear.

Prof Tim Jackson. Long standing disruptive thinker. Honestly, this man rocks my world. (And I'm quite fussy about my men).

These guys are doing exactly what it says on the tin. Rethinking everything we thought we knew about economics. But this time doing it better. And you can join...click the image for their website...they're closer than you think.

Aditya Chackrabortty. One of the few voices on the airwaves rocking the boat on current economic presumptions. Wrote this fab piece - one of many: click to see.

Ann Pettifor. Deviant Economist. One of the people who DID forecast the crash in 2008. 10 years ahead.... never let anyone tell you "no-one saw it coming" ...

Prof Steve Keen. Another cognitive dissident. Hear him here on RD with Ann Pettifor in one of Aditya Chackrabortty's Cassandra programme.

Yanis Varoufakis: Greek thinker, writer, economist, disruptor. Has just written "one of the greatest political memoirs of all time" (Paul Mason).

This is the elegant reframing - in the language of common sense - of what economics needs to be. By the splendid Kate Raworth. Have a click to realise you're just as much an economist as any of those suits...

Rutger Bregman: "Poverty isn't a lack of character: it's a lack of cash".

Joseph Stiglitz. This dude calls inequality for what it is. He even has a beard, and everything.

New Economics Foundation: just check out their website. They#ve been disrupting stuff for a long time and have some deeply brilliant programmes, people and publications...

Tim Jackson blog: "There are post-growth worlds in which social progress remains entirely possible".

Centre for Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. Exactly.

BBC R4: Morality - including if capitaiism has actually justified designing out morality (may chill the blood somewhat).

Got another idea for adding to this list? Email us on wildly brilliant @ outlook dot com :)

Fab Treehugger article on climate change. The researcher add that "arguments against strong state governance presented above depend on a particular kind of economic theory, namely the neoclassical school. If we switch to another theoretical lens, looking at the economy from another perspective, these arguments lose their effect."

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Talking creative disruption:

June 2018: talk at Cornwall Council's private event,
Royal Cornwall Show:
the future of critical thinking may just involve a doughnut ...

Katherine Trebeck talking about the redundancy of GDP
50 years after Kennedy's speech

November 2020: Cornwall Doughnut Collective!

Have a look here at our emerging atlas of pros-perity.

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