How to Turn the Power of the Wall Street Protests into Real Reforms

A “repatriation holiday” would be good for well-to-do CEOs and investors, not so good for workers and taxpayers.


Book Review: 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers

Adaptation will mean moving from growth to a steady-state economy, one almost certainly at a smaller scale than at present.


Making Sense of the Protests through a Post-Growth Lens

Protestors have a visceral grasp on the fact that the economy has been engineered for ecological and financial ruin.


Call Me a FOCer: Big Ideas under a Big Sky

A prerequisite to achieving a sustainable healthcare scheme, agricultural system, or economy is a widespread philosophical change of heart.


New Evidence for Changing the Nature of the Global Economy

Weather disasters and a consumption disaster waiting to happen in China: the limits to growth are showing up in 2011.


Book Review: Economics Unmasked: From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good by Phillip B. Smith and Manfred Max-Neef

MIT-PhD-IMF-BMW. Although this career path may benefit specific economists, it fails to serve the common good.


President Obama’s (Hoped for) “Amaze Speech”

What if President Obama rose above political expedience and leveled with the American people?


Why Do So Many People Believe in the Fantasy of Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet?

If we don’t start asking, “why?” real soon, our kids will one day be asking “How did we let this happen?”