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True Cost Economics
Kick It Over!
We need a new economic paradigm - one that is open, holistic, and human scale - and this website offers a blueprint for getting there. Prepare yourself with some background information about economics in the Old paradigm and New paradigm sections then roll up your sleeves and launch into action on your campus.
Ecological economics pioneer Robert Costanza likens conventional economics to a bucket full of water that’s ready to tip. All it needs is one sharp jolt. So, let’s kick it over.
The economic revolution begins with jamming Economics departments. It ends with an entirely new way to measure progress. This is our most urgent campaign: a fight to revolutionize economics before our planet is destroyed.
New Paradigm
- Economists leading the change
- True cost pricing
- Ecological footprint
- Paradigm Shift
Old Paradigm
- What’s wrong with neoclassical economic
- Scrap the GDP
- Blinders of the Academy
Recent Articles
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Thought Control In Economics
A high level of conformity in academic institutions makes it difficult for economists to tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:17 am
by Tom Green
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Vulture Funds: A New Category in Capitalism
A new capitalism – brutal and conquering – is moving in. It’s the capitalism of a new category of vulture funds: private equity funds with the appetite of an ogre that command colossal amounts of capital.
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:49 am
by Ignacio Ramonet
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The Revolutionaries
Amidst all the hoopla of ad campaigns, business news and growth projections, a close examination of our consumer culture reveals a very ugly truth: it thrives on the death of nature, and charges the cost to future generations.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. We still have time to redesign our economic model. All it takes is a critical mass of visionaries to step forward.
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 2:56 pm
by Ben Landis Casey Cowan Nicholas Klassen
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