Preprint fucking awesomeness alert! From the same crew that brought you the awesome information-theoretic approach in “Quantifying sustainability: resilience, efficiency, and the return of information theory” earlier this year in Ecological Complexity and “Options for managing a systemic bank crisis” in Sapiens comes the most concise, rigorous denouncement of neoliberal socioeconomic policy published in the academic literature outside the Left humanities/social sciences complex! Citation:
Goerner, S. J., B. Lietaer, and R. E. Ulanowicz. Quantifying economic sustainability: implications for free-enterprise theory, policy and practice. Ecological Economics 69(1): 76-81, 2009.
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Goerner, S. J., B. Lietaer, and R. E. Ulanowicz. Theoretical ecologists against neoliberalism.
That’s right kids, it’s only 6 pages long! If you care about sustainability or economic policy or practice (I’m totally over giving a shit about policy in this country, so don’t think you have to care about that for this to be relevant) at all you totally have no excuse to not be reading this ish right freaking now! Plus, there aren’t even any equations in it (that’s my shoutout to my mathophobic homies, whom I do not judge; if you want the derivation of the model, go read the earlier paper in Ecological Complexity)!
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