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| | jornbettin.com
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| | The 10,000 year project of human civilisation or empire building is coming to an end. Human life as we knew it - shaped by the anthropocentric myths of "meritocracy", technological "progress", and "growth" - is less and less compatible with our daily experiences and with the needs of all the people and other living creatures...
| | surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com
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| | ALIGNING EXPECTATION WITH POSSIBILITY Why is the world at large so often "surprised" when the materially impossible doesn't happen? In economics, the consensus line - a narrative shared by government, business and, for the most part, the general public - is that the economy will carry on growing as we shift from climate-harming fossil fuels...
| | owenlynch.org
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| | [AI summary] The review of 'Capital as Power' by Bichler and Nitzan explores their theory of capitalism as a dynamic system of power accumulation and creorder. The book is praised for its engaging narrative, historical insights, and integration of diverse theoretical frameworks. Key themes include the quantification of power through markets, the role of creorder in shaping political systems, and the analysis of economic indicators over time. The review highlights the book's strengths in providing a framework for understanding capitalist logics and its potential for mathematical modeling using statistical mechanics. The reviewer recommends the book for its depth and content, despite its length, and suggests a middle way of reading the first chapter and additi...
| | thewastedworld.com
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| In the twilight years of fossil capitalism we see the emergence of a new organisation of time in which the present is no longer able to fuel itself at the expense of the future, and the accumulated destruction of the past returns at a planetary level. To address this disjunction between the time of capital...