Introduction We are ready to take our first peek under the bonnet of New Keynesian Economics, and where better to start than the Long-run. The Long run is the supposed natural state of the economy, where all factories and workers are fully employed, and the economy is producing goods and services at full capacity (given…
I’m not writing this blog to talk about the Living Planet Report, I’m writing this because it angers me to live in a society where the mainstream media, national governments and public aren’t talking about three quarters of all living animals dying in the last 50 years. Our society has managed to become incredibly technologically advanced, but also pathologically disconnected from nature, it’s intrinsic value and it’s utterly essential role in our own survival. So how did we become so cumulatively stupid?