"PIKETTY'S MAP, OUR TERRITORY: The Economists Finally Arrived. They Were 200 Years Late and Our Tamariki Are Still Hungry." - 24 June 2026

NEW ESSAY: PIKETTY'S MAP, OUR TERRITORY

The World Inequality Lab wants to tax billionaires, end GDP worship, and fund a just world. A former Reserve Bank chairman called it "dreamland."

Māori have been living this kaupapa since before 1840.

The receipts:
📌 1 in 4 tamariki Māori in material hardship
📌 $102.1B held by 119 NZ families
📌 $2.6B on combat helicopters this year
📌 $624M Māori housing — scrapped

This essay names the crimes. Names the beneficiaries. Names the whānau being destroyed.

🎙️ Audio learner? The Deep Dive Podcast — two hosts, lively kōrero, every connection unpacked. (AI te reo pronunciation is rough. Fair warning 😊)
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ngYObxf5Xms

→https://www.themaorigreenlantern.maori.nz/pikettys-map-our-territory-the-economists-finally-arrived-they-were-200-years-late-and-our-tamariki-are-still-hungry-24-june-2026/

#Aotearoa #MāoriPolitics #WealthTax #Kaitiakitanga #PostGrowth #IndigenousEconomics #TinoRangatiratanga

https://www.themaorigreenlantern.maori.nz/pikettys-map-our-territory-the-economists-finally-arrived-they-were-200-years-late-and-our-tamariki-are-still-hungry-24-june-2026/

It's apparently World Localization Day, and I've made the wise choice to stay up very late to attend the first session of New Economy Network of Australia's Post-Growth Futures Week on building local futures through transition and regrowth. Amazing discussion on the need to imagine the lives we actually want to live, connect with others, and create a world that allows all to thrive.

I'm looking forward to the rest of the week! (And to watching the recording of this session to catch all the stuff I missed -- central standard time is just a wee bit behind Australian eastern standard time...)

Event link here for those interested: https://events.humanitix.com/nena-post-growth-futures-week-2026

#economics #localization #localisation #communityResilience #postGrowth #degrowth #newEconomy #systemsChange

Laying the ground for an engagement between research on democratic planning and degrowth/postgrowth.

Identifying the obstacles to a more substantial engagement with debates on planning in the degrowth/postgrowth literature.

Delineating the key requirements and challenges for democratic planning beyond growth..
#sufficiency #degrowth #postgrowth #capitalocene
Planning beyond growth: The case for economic democracy within ecological limits - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652623045092

Economics, always the dismal science, is now the object of active contempt. And rightly so. But: we are on it, people. Our side has economists too, and progressive economics has not been more lively since Joan Robinson was teaching in Cambridge.

Look for posts on #degrowth, #postgrowth, #NewEconomicThinking . Some of the heavy hitters have accounts, but sadly do not post much. I am nobody important, but I do watch that space and post about it.

https://masto.byrd.ws/@josh/116773449361651385
#economics

🌍 The latest CUSP Newsletter is live now. // Co-director @ProfTimJackson reflects on aggressive expansionism, rising militarism, and justice systems that punish protest while shielding atrocities—arguing that what's done in the name of growth, law, and defence is the very opposite of prosperity, justice, and security.
🆕 Plus new research and activities from across the CUSP community.
➡️ https://share.sender.net/campaigns/geG7/bread-and-circuses-cusp-newsletter-june-2026

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#Postgrowth #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #BeyondGrowth #Sufficiency #TheCareEconomy