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Every published page in the house, and every book on the shelf — 393 volumes and 44,688 passages of it — and every result is a passage that opens where it was written.
7 passages from 6 volumes
Measuring The Living Economy
National Accounts and Their Ghosts: What GDP Was Built to Miss
Their higher output means they contribute more to GDP, even though their farming practices are arguably less sustainable and beneficial to the environment.
Measuring The Living Economy
What We Count Becomes What We Value
This emergent complexity makes it challenging to predict economic outcomes with precision.
Economic Systems As Living Systems
Stocks, Flows, and the Anatomy of an Economy
Think of it as harvesting all the leaves without allowing new ones to grow – eventually, the tree weakens.
Ecological Economics And Finance
Policy and Regulation for a Living Economy
We zoom in on individual cells, dissect their functions, measure their outputs. Valuable information, sure, but are we missing the bigger picture?
Systemic Resilience In Financial Systems
Resilience Metrics and Early Warning Signals
But here's where the analogy gets even more interesting: living systems aren't just about stability; they thrive on change and adaptation.
From Micro To Macro A Living Systems Approach
The Future of Economics: Embracing a Living Systems Perspective
This chapter, dear reader, is about that seed – about exploring how a living systems perspective can revolutionize our understanding of economics and guide us towards a more sustainable future.
The House
The numbers say the economy is fine, and it does not feel fine
Nothing enters or leaves the system without a matching entry. The book introduces it through a Florentine bookkeeper in 1494, trying to hold an entire city's economy in a ledger designed for single businesses.