Rethinking the Economy

Time for a little more “stumbling towards.”
(see blog subtitle)
As we saw last week, in Krugman’s world you start by assuming that the market basically works and then you deal with exceptions — “market failures” or “negative externalities.
What if we stopped bowing down to the Market Gods? What if we stopped saying the sun [...]

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Now that I’ve used Getting Green Done to flesh out part of my argument, here’s the latest version of my framework.
The conventional economic framework, a.k.a. Econ 101, says the economy can be broken into 3 layers:

People are calculators: they rationally pursue their self-interest given near perfect information about the world
Organizations are calculators
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[Part 2 of the Getting Green Done book review]
As we saw last week , in Getting Green Done Auden Schendler says the Enviro movement has to get comfortable talking about their mistakes as well as their successes. Here’s one of his.
When Schendler first started at Aspen Skiing Co., he told Eric Calderon, [...]

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Engineer Jan L. A.van de Snepscheut said, “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.” (p.9)
That’s one of the main points of a terrific new book, Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution, by Auden Schendler. Schendler is the executive director [...]

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