Manfred Max Neef

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Sufficiency means degrowth

Resilience 06 May 2022

Share. Tweet. Print ... What does “demand” mean? ... Back to economics 101 ... Whose demand is it? ... 2012).” ... Difficult here not to think of Manfred Max-Neef’s Matrix of Fundamental Human Needs or of Amartya Sen’s concept of “capabilities.” Decent living standards are not a matter of money but rather a matter of capabilities, only some of which depend on money ... ***.

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What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 56 Kamea Chayne

Resilience 12 Oct 2021

Share. Tweet. Print. Show Notes. Kamea Chayne is a Hakka-Taiwanese creative, writer, the author of Thrive, and the host of the Green Dreamer podcast ... She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including ... Resources Green Dreamer Podcast ... Thrive by Kamea Chayne ... I don’t know if you ever heard of Manfred Max-Neef ... Yeah ... .

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Enough for Everyone

Resilience 12 Aug 2021

Three decades ago, the late Chilean economist and Right Livelihood Award-winner Manfred Max-Neef argued that the basic needs of human beings go deeper than the list of goods and services that usually comes to mind ... That’s why lists of basic requirements always include food, shelter, health care, etc.—what Max-Neef termed “satisfiers” of needs.

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The bear, the tiger, and the trade unionist

Resilience 15 Mar 2021

Share. Tweet. Print. Warning. medley ahead ... Let’s see how we get on ... Fine ... Principle 2 ... Amartya Sen, Tim Jackson, Kate Raworth, Giorgos Kallis, Jason Hickel, Mariana Mazzucato, Hilary Cottam, Ian Gough, Anna Coote, Manfred Max-Neef, Monica Guillen-Royo, Dan O’Neill, Beth Stratford, Milena Büchs, Elke Pirgmaier, Ben Fine & Kate Bayliss all come to mind.

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Chilean Embraces Environmental Ethos on Oregon Coast

Dissident Voice 12 Dec 2020

Before heading over to interview this subject, I was thinking of a possible epigraph for the piece. One from a Chilean .. Discovery is not seeing what there is (that is impossible at any level), but rather allowing oneself to converge towards a continually freshly-created reality. ― Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef, From the Outside Looking In ... .

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Lighting up the Elite’s Solutions will Still Smell of Sulphur

Dissident Voice 15 Oct 2020

I also know that one must do what one can do. No matter how little it is, it is nonetheless a human testimony and human testimonies, as long as they are not based on greed or personal ambition for power, can have unexpected positive effects.…I believe in local action and in small dimensions ... ― Manfred Max-Neef ... [source]. Quaint. Bad writing ... Here ... ... .

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No More Business as Usual – Rethinking Economic Value for a Post-Covid World

Resilience 07 Apr 2020

“No economic interest, under no circumstance, can be above the reverence of life.” – Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist, 1932 -2019. A national conversation has begun which is alarming, yet also familiar. It talks about costs and trade-offs, losses and accounts. It is a conversation about human lives framed in the language of economics ... .

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Earth Year for October 2019: The fourth step toward sustainability

Corvallis Gazette-Times 30 Sep 2019

This is the fourth in a series of four columns examining the four steps in the Natural Step framework for sustainability. The online version of this column includes links to the previous three columns ... The formal wording is as follows. ... The fourth system goes on to list human needs based on the Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef’s work ... Think about it.

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Growthism: its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

Resilience 28 Mar 2019

We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth ... This is growthism. It now creates more problems than it solves ... No dispute there ... Briefly, they include ... N ... C ... M ... See also Manfred Max-Neef, Economic Growth and Quality of Life.

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Equality: A Beneficial Alternative to Collapse

Resilience 13 Sep 2018

What future shall we choose? Equality or inequality? Deep democracy or more limited forms? Sustainability and wise stewardship of resources, or exploitation for profit? You have a good idea of where current systems are taking us. A viable alternative path exists, and that path is science based ... The economist Manfred Max-Neef recognizes nine ... Global ... 1.

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Patterns of Commoning: Reality as Commons, A Poetics of Participation for the Anthropocene

Resilience 28 Jun 2018

Near Sant’Andrea, Italy, the sea laps onto the slabs of rock that form the edge of the island of Elba ... Beyond Humanism ... It is the domain of what Manfred Max-Neef catalogues as “human needs” – the existential dimensions of healthy relationships to self and others (Smith & Max-Neef 2010) ... Yet reality is not chaotic ... * * * ... and Manfred Max-Neef, 2010 ... .

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The Punditry of Shithole Thinking

Dissident Voice 16 Jan 2018

liberty, equality and freedom ... Really ... Manfred Max Neef calls this country, USA — richest, biggest land rip off abusing, military mightiest, vastest financial thieving, culturally insanest — underdeveloping ... No problem ... ... . ... Who in your group of friends and acquaintances even knows what economics is for? Manfred Max Neef again. ... Max-Neef ... .

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Borrowed feathers give cover to power

Mail Guardian South Africa 20 Jul 2017

Peter Sloterdijk, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Samantha Vice, before Van Niekerk proceeds to “Manfred Max-Neef on economics, [Noam] Chomsky’s work on information and politics, Alexander Chayanov’s ideas on agriculture, André Voisin’s ideas on intensive rotational grazing, Fritz ...

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Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites ...

CounterPunch 22 May 2017

There is something infuriating about the name “gig economy,” especially when I hear privileged parents chatting about their fascination with the subject ... Well, there’s nothing new about this kind of work ... As Chilean Economist Manfred Max Neef once stated, “In poverty there is an enormous creativity ... Notes ... 2017 ... NY ... “Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef ... .

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Building a New Social Commons

Resilience 19 May 2017

The New Economics Foundation works to build a new economy where people can really take control. To move towards that goal, we have to think about two things ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... Works by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum on human capabilities, and by Manfred Max-Neef on human scale development and fundamental needs are also relevant and overlap with this approach.