Dismal scientists are people too am grateful I read The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner a very long time ago. It removed my fear of economists and economics. Heilbroner talked about them as humans (with frailties like the rest of us) and showed that the ‘dismal science’ they practiced was …
DAVOS: Stuck in the past?
f the nub of the sustainability challenge is to shift from an economic logic based on more people consuming more stuff to one that flourishes through fewer people consuming less stuff, then we are not getting on very well. If the nub of the sustainability challenge is to shift from …
Good Governance Systems
hen I wrote my book hesitated about including Barak Obama in my list of Positive Deviants. While recognising the grim challenges of the American political system, he did seem to be a man determined to take them on without mortgaging his soul. Since then he has had the toughest of times, …