Gaian Economics

All other green campaigns become futile without tackling the economic system and its ideological defenders. Economics is only dismal because there are not enough of us making it our own. Read on and become empowered!

30 May 2007

The Lessons of the Market

So I've spent quite a few posts now dissecting and hacking off at the economist's bizarre and unrealistic model of the market, a mar...

26 May 2007

Trading Futures

In spite of the breaking out of civil war in Lebanon and the deaths of many innocent people, the fire aboard the Cutty Sark topped the news ...

18 May 2007

Banking on each other

No wonder that Venezuelan president Chavez is public enemy no. 1 for the Bush administration. Not only is he smart enough to have figured ou...

14 May 2007

The Assumptions of Perfect Competition: Lesson 5

Assumption 5: Producers and consumers have perfect knowledge of the market Of all the assumptions of perfect competition the assumption abou...

6 May 2007

The Assumptions of Perfect Competition: Lesson 4

Assumption 4: All firms produce an identical product This assumption is necessary to achieve the required situation where we make our purcha...

1 May 2007

Assumptions of Perfect Competition: Lesson 3

Given the savagery with which corporations defend their right to control the markets they operate in, the third assumption of a perfectly co...

24 April 2007

Out of sight but not out of mind

Just as most economic activity is now negative rather than positive, so most of the economic value of the economy is debt rather than credit...

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Molly: I am economics speaker for the green party although blogs represent my personal views. I have a PhD in economics and work in co-operative research as well as trying to build up bioregional economies

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