By Jim Selman |
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I am not an economist. Thank goodness. This is not a good time to be one. There is a wonderful overview of the field, “
How Did Economists Get it So Wrong?”, by Paul Krugman in the
New York Times.
The bottom line is that the current situation “which nobody could have
predicted” was predicted and it doesn’t take an economist to know that:[
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Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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By Shae Hadden |
Bio
Today is the day after the Canadian federal elections. It's also
Blog Action Day on Poverty. Admittedly, poverty is an important issue,
and so are politics. But there is an intractable problem we all face
that is the context for poverty, economics and politics. And that
is the environment. Our elected leaders in Canada and the U.S. will not
only set the course for
North American environmental and economic policies for the next few
years, but will also impact our long-term future as well. And we all
(developed and developing countries alike) need to transition to
clean energy economies if we want to avert global disaster.
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Written by eldering at Leadership
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