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What The Fcuk Is Planning (And A Planned Economy)? 5 Parts in 1

Jan 6

Is #planning the past, as the mainstream argues? Is planning the present, as critics of #capitalism argue? Or is planning the future,as different revolutionaries argue? For an outline of an answer we need a little philosophy of planning, so I improvise it.

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Is planning the past, as the mainstream argues? Is planning the present, as critics of capitalism argue? Or is planning the future, as different visionaries and revolutionaries argue? Trivially, to…

Jan 23

"But that’s just the 'storm in the teacup.' The important point is that economic tsunamis like the GFC can be avoided, by controlling how much #credit #banks create."

Nice ride. Got a funny insight at min 50.Sociologists of knowledge have wondered for decades how (social) science can influence politics. Not sure,but prbly they have forgotten to hypothesize that u just have to populate a treasury with lots of ideologues, that's basically it. 😂

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Steve Keen

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Hey @yanisvaroufakis if ever you make it back to Australia, @DanielBleakley of the @TheAusInstitute would like to interview you while you drive his @tesla. See my experience here: youtu.be/m0D1OZN7el0 You can trash Neoliberalism while enjoying the EV experience.

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Mario Bunge Out Of Context

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Steven Hail

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Another take on a Job Guarantee. Moving to sustainability means shutting down some sectors of the economy, once alternatives are available or we have identified them as being unsustainable.

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This⬇️ was actually a quite entertaining event. It's also fascinating that we have had these "history versus X" debates in one tradition for 300 years or so by now, a bit different across all disciplines in the 20th century, and in another probably for 2000plus years.

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"Too much Maths, too little #History: The problem of #Economics" (2015) Proposition Team - Robert Skidelsky & Dr. Ha-Joon Chang youtu.be/6rXBBqMmIP8 #platonism #problems

Are scientists immune to charlatanism? Currently,many assume that just the less or uneducated believe nonsense. But no,they are not. Mario Bunge, physicist&philosopher, tells us that scientists believe in all sorts of nonsense outside of their specialties.

Mario A. Bunge - Interview by Andeas Pickel (2011)

Visit Agathonia Media for the Archivo Digital homage to Mario A. Bunge, one out of just a few in English, and more: https://agathoniamedia.com/2020/04/17/ho...

"This exclusionism, together with the virtual impossibility of proving anything, gives mathematical #economics a powerful incentive to make the real world more like their models than to make the models more like the real world."

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"Too much Maths, too little #History: The problem of #Economics" (2015) Proposition Team - Robert Skidelsky & Dr. Ha-Joon Chang youtu.be/6rXBBqMmIP8 #platonism #problems

"Too much Maths, too little #History: The problem of #Economics" (2015) Proposition Team - Robert Skidelsky & Dr. Ha-Joon Chang youtu.be/6rXBBqMmIP8 #platonism #problems

"Too much Maths, too little History: The problem of Economics"

This is a recording of the debate hosted by the LSE Economic History Department, in collaboration with the LSESU Economic History Society and the LSESU Econo...

Ermittlungen eingeleitet: Milliardär rast mit 417 km/h über A2

Ulrich Schneider

@UlrichSchneider

Vielleicht wäre die #Ampel ja bereit, wenigstens über ein #Tempolimit von … sagen wir mal … 400 km/h nachzudenken … Ermittlungen eingeleitet: Milliardär rast mit 417 km/h über A2

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Das Video eines tschechischen Multimillionärs sorgt im Netz für Sprachlosigkeit. Mit über 400 km/h rast Radim Passer in einem Bugatti über die A2. Die Polizeisprecherin bezeichnet das Verhalten als...

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Did I Predict the Global Financial Crisis?

Jan 23

"So yes,I predicted the crisis,&yes,I explained how Australia could avoid it as well—though the policies Australia’s government followed had the side effect of giving Australia the second-highest level of household debt in the world today"

@ProfSteveKeen

theepochtimes.com

Commentary The 2008 recession, known as the “Global Financial Crisis” (“GFC”) outside the USA and the “Great Recession” ...

Warum Robert Habeck sich kein Beispiel an Ludwig Erhard nehmen sollte

Jan 23

"So schrieb (Erhard) zum Fall Polen: »Der polnische Arbeiter hat sich als willig&fleißig erwiesen, wenn auch seine Leistung nicht an reichsdeutschen Maßstäben zu messen ist. Dies ist der Ausfluss mangelnder Erziehung und rassisch bedingter Eigenschaften.«"

jacobin.de

Manche wünschen sich, Robert Habeck möge Ludwig Erhard nacheifern. Denn der wird nach wie vor als »Vater des Wirtschaftswunders« verehrt. Doch dahinter steckt mehr Mythos als Wahrheit.

Individuals and social pressure: how to change the world

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"But here’s the problem: we usually have absolutely no idea how the systems that govern our daily lives really work. Not the foggiest. It takes activism and active confrontation with #systems to really understand what they are made of..."

@JKSteinberger

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A rare victory upended my understanding of how we can change the world, and some of these insights might help you too.

youtu.be/Txn97XrkJYE #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionEdu #BiodiversityCrisis

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"Brutally Cold Outbreaks in Our Warming World" #ClimateEmergency Forum with

@PCarterClimate

@cityotter

@PaulHBeckwith

Brutally Cold Outbreaks in Our Warming World

Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith, and Regina Valdez discuss the occurrence and causes of extreme cold snaps/outbreaks in spite of rising global average temper...

"it has been more than 20 years since #normal or above-normal rainfall has been recorded in southern Brazil, with some exceptions. ... In Argentina, the northeastern Litoral region has recorded below-normal rainfall for the last two years, particularly during the summer."

"Paraguay, southern Brazil & northeastern Argentina cover a vast region of South America crossed by rivers that make up the Río de La Plata Basin, and have been experiencing a severe water deficit for almost 3 years, with two consecutive summers under the influence of La Niña."

Heatwave and drought hit South America’s crops and economy

"#Brazil, #Argentina & #Paraguay, the 3 major agricultural producers in South America, are currently experiencing a prolonged period of #drought and low #water levels in their main rivers. This is severely impacting #harvests" dialogochino.net/en/agriculture #FoodSystems #ClimateCrisis

dialogochino.net

Southern Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina are experiencing a severe drought that is affecting soybean and maize production

interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Bill Gates & #Plutocracy. Dennoch kein schlechter Klick. Fragen der Verantwortung: Wer das Klima am meisten schädigt – und wer die Folgen trägt

Fragen der Verantwortung: Wer das Klima am meisten schädigt – und wer die Folgen trägt

Hierzulande scheinen die Folgen des Klimawandels noch abstrakt. Auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent ist das anders - obwohl die Menschen dort am wenigsten dazu beitragen. Eine Gegenüberstellung.

The big idea: should animals have the same rights as humans?

"Not until the modern age of neuroscience hve we truly begun to recognise a continuity of neural hardware&cognitive ability betwn us&other animals. Still the question lingers of whether there's some fundamental difference of mind that makes humans special"

theguardian.com

Endless debates about the human-like animals are miss the point. Can we respect them regardless?

New research in

and I. Stadelmann-Steffen. Two countries have set up carbon tax + rebates: Canada + Switzerland. Have these rebates increased public carbon pricing support, as advocates hope? Not really. 1/🧵 nature.com/articles/s4155

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"This pandemic has created a period of tremendous churn where we have seen the state support people in a way we wld have previously considered impossible. Out of previous trauma,Labour founded the NHS – something that came from Welsh Labour. Cld a #UBI be this generation’s NHS?"

Welsh Labour’s UBI Pilot Is a Step to Fixing Our Broken Economy

"I want us to gather evidence of the effectiveness of a Universal #BasicIncome. We face tremendous challenges in this country, and we will need #solutions that will address them and ensure that people are not left to sink into deprivation." tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/welsh- #UBI

tribunemag.co.uk

Faced with rising poverty and the threat of automation, the Welsh government is rolling out a Universal Basic Income pilot – its aim is to show that bold policies can transform our broken economy.

Evidenz: 1000 Pandemie-Tweets, teilnehmende Beobachtung über Jahrzehnte, unstrukturierte Betroffeneninterviews, kurz: infallibel. 😂

Alltagsfilosofie EP3 - Minima Moralia Im Grunde ist die bürgerliche/moderne Familie eine Art Fließband, unterschiedlich straff tayloristisch & patriarchal strukturiert,mit variablem externen Personal etc., aber gleichem Elend. Nur konsequent, wenn 'Sorge-Arbeit' entlohnt würde.

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George Monbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot

11h

What's it about? Well, it's a revolutionary new vision for addressing the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced: feeding the world while simultaneously preventing climate and ecological breakdown.

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

@daniel_dsj2110

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1. I have a new article in Humanity on the relationship between Friedrich Hayek and Raymond Aron. Tries to explain the similarities and differences between neoliberals and Cold War liberals, which led to a relationship of convenience that remains today: muse.jhu.edu/article/845681

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Plus the school and university teachers.

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Plus the economists. twitter.com/jasonhickel/st…

Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

Policymakers: "I need a solution to climate change" Sustainability academics: "Try this" Policymakers: "No are you mental that's taboo" Academics: "Try that" Policymakers: "Ditto" Academics: "You know what? Here's a critique of this conversation"

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Paul Musgrave

@profmusgrave

· Jan 23

Policymakers: I need a solution Academics: here's a critique

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Plus the economists.

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Jason Hickel

@jasonhickel

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We're going to need some kind of criminal accountability, not only for the fossil fuel executives who have lied to the public about climate change for decades, but for the political leaders who have had it in their power to stop climate breakdown and yet have done nothing.

Enlightening the World. The Relevance and Irrelevance of Philosophies and the Social Sciences in...

Enlightening the World. The Relevance and Irrelevance of Philosophies and the Social Sciences academia.edu/38433176/Enlig via

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academia.edu

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

To interrogate academics about the relevance of academia is like wanting to ask cardinals about the relevance of the church.

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CO2_Earth

@CO2_earth

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📈 418.96 ppm #CO2 in the atmosphere January 23, 2022 📈 Up from 416.40 ppm a year ago 📈 Mauna Loa Observatory

@NOAA

data & graphic: esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trend 📈 CO2.Earth tracking: co2.earth/daily-co2 🙏 View & share often 🙏

Blick zurück in die Menschheitsgeschichte | ttt – titel, thesen, temperamente

David Wengrow

@davidwengrow

19h

Last week some friendly guys turned my office upside down to record this nice piece for German TV - apparently #Anfänge #TheDawnOfEverything is already a bestseller there, but thanks to Brexit my copies are stuck somewhere in the post .. #DavidGraeber

daserste.de

Der Anthropologe David Graeber und der Archäologe David Wengrow erzählen die Geschichte der Menschheit neu. In ihrem aufregenden Buch zeigen sie Modelle, wie wir unser Zusammenleben in Zukunft besser...

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· Nov 14, 2021

"Extreme Weather & the #Climate Casino" #ClimateEmergency Forum "We cld say that we cld always stay under 1.5 if we compare what the temperature is now to 20 years ago or 50 years ago.If we always change the baseline, what's the point?" @PaulHBeckwith youtu.be/GU3P_lWdwio

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youtu.be/Txn97XrkJYE #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionEdu #BiodiversityCrisis

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"Brutally Cold Outbreaks in Our Warming World" #ClimateEmergency Forum with

@PCarterClimate

@cityotter

@PaulHBeckwith

Brutally Cold Outbreaks in Our Warming World

Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith, and Regina Valdez discuss the occurrence and causes of extreme cold snaps/outbreaks in spite of rising global average temper...

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Flying blind? Flying accumulating, exploiting, destroying, faking, silencing, noising ...

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"As I keep saying, we need to think harder about #inflation. Because in many ways, monetary policy is still flying #blind after all these years." @StephanieKelton

How (Not) to Fight Inflation stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/how-not-to-f

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Prognose: Der in der Regel verschwiegene und oft auch 'gefälschte' Indikator 'healthy life years' wird in den kommenden Jahrzehnten einen kontinuierlichen Rückgang erleben, global und national. #Gesundheit

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Warum Gesundheit gar nicht unser "teuerstes Gut" ist | heise online heise.de/tp/features/Wa

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"... But the heart of the debate lies elsewhere: it is political. What the orthodox defend here is a social order, that of capital, which they consider ‘natural’." #myth #ideology