Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 14
"’The beauty of the #economicman,’ as #AlfredNorthWhitehead remarked, 'was that we knew exactly what he was after’.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

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Show threadClaire McNabJan 29

I like this. @ChrisMayLA6. Thanks for sharing it.

But it also saddens me.

All of my adult life has been spent with various parts of the wellbeing campaigners.

Yet this period since ~1980 has been dominated by #economicMan's greed and callousness.

Now economic man is being displaced, but not by a #wellbeingEconomy. The new big force is the politics and economics of cruelty. EconomicMan is being replaced by — or maybe fronted by — #SadisticMan.

bs2Feb 15, 2023
> We are told we are rational #EconomicMan. And the model that would be made of us? He would be a man, without #caring responsibilities, standing alone, independent of others. He’s got money in his hand—that’s how he interacts with the world—he’s got ego in his heart…a calculator in his head…and he’s got #nature at his feet…We will never learn to thrive with 10 billion people on this planet with this model of ourselves.
https://centerforneweconomics.org/newsletters/kate-raworths-42nd-annual-e-f-schumacher-lecture/
#KateRaworth #DonutEconomics and I think of #Mozi
Kate Raworth's 42nd Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture - Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Kate Raworth’s 42nd Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture this past Saturday was positively brimming of energy. With a record-setting 1,400 registrants, the anticipation surrounding “Planetary Economics: New Tools for Local Transformation” was palpable. You can now watch a full recording of the lecture and subsequent Q&A. If you find Kate’s message as inspiring as we do, we hope you’ll share generously. … Continued

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