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Re-thinking scale and growth
Despite the lack of policy progress on climate change and ecosystem degradation there is no shortage of solutions currently on offer. While the specifics may differ, those getting most attention share...
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New Work Centers and HTSP
A few days ago I gave a keynote address to the International Society for Ecological Economics which was held in Bremen, Germany. First time teleconferencing for a keynote, which was a nice, minimal...
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Financial reform forgot the planet
Sorry I’ve been unable to post lately. The semester started and I’ve got two new classes, including one entitled “People and Nature,” which I am teaching with a historian and really enjoying. The good...
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The 80% Solution
The new year is a perfect time to resume my blog posts, which fell victim to a heavy schedule of speaking about Plenitude as well as two new courses at Boston College, where I teach full time. It’s a...
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The great light bulb and toilet controversy
The recent headlines on Congressional hearings on light bulbs and toilets prompted the NY Times to do a Room for Debate feature, which I contributed to. They confine us to 300 words, so I didn’t get...
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Counter-intuition 101: why recent bad economic news means it’s time for...
The economic news of the last few weeks has not been encouraging. In Europe, the various national debt crises remain unresolved, with a continued monopoly of banker-friendly austerity programs, and...
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The Incredible Shrinking Economy: revisions to GDP since 2007 reveal bleak news
Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released revised figures for the Gross Domestic Product going all the way back to 2007, and they aren’t pretty. The recovery is a failure; the economy is lousy;...
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Occupy Sustainability
Apologies for my long silence. I’ve been busy with many things, including the Occupy movement. I just published the following piece in the Guardian Sustainable Business section, at:...
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Economic Fallacies: wrong-headed ideas about worktime
I’m just back from four days of workshops and public lectures in London, Paris and Brussels. There is tremendous interest in issues of worktime there. The London event was organized by the new...
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Young people need jobs
With under 100 days to go until the November election in the US, we can expect to hear a lot more about jobs and employment. Both candidates claim they will “create jobs” but neither will go beyond...
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New York Times pieces on the Future of Work
It’s new economy week, and I’ve got a new op-ed in the International New York Times on the future of work that ran on Tuesday. It talks about my new research for the MacArthur Foundation on the new...
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