Category Archives: economics

It’s new moon: a goat must be sacrificed

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Miles King

Some random musings on natural capital. Sacrifice may have been a way for societies to avoid creating ecological debt. Ecological debt is another way of describing the damage to nature inflicted by human activity. Arguably ecological debt starts when modern … Continue reading →

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Natural Capital, Greshams Law and the Tainted Altruism Effect

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Miles King

I am in two minds whether to buy Tony Juniper’s new book, What nature does for Britain. On the one hand I think it will be well written and entertaining with lots of good examples of positive action for nature. … Continue reading →

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Forget Gross Domestic Product, we need to measure Gross Natural Product

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Miles King

        Trading Floor at The New York Stock Exchange 1963   We have now had four and a half years of austerity, of seeing our public services, and more widely, the public realm in Britain being cut … Continue reading →

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