Alix Underwood

Sep 25, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Alix Underwood |James Gustave Speth |Neha Saigal

I find even popular writings by economists quite baffling.They begin beguilingly enough in brisk back-slapping language,but as you proceed with trust and hope they slip in some concept and term that makes sense only to economists.As though when you are led on by some agent of a stockbroker with rosy promises in plain intelligible language and you are getting mentally ready to part with some money in the hope of a fast buck,he suddenly slips in some mysterious quibble that only he and his...

Aug 14, 2024 | resilience.org | Alix Underwood

Like the economy of nature, the human economy has a “trophic” structure. In nature, nutrition and energy flow from plants to herbivores to carnivores, with each of these comprising a trophic level of the ecosystem. In the human economy, materials and energy flow from agriculture and other extractive activities to heavy manufacturing to light manufacturing. Both economies include service providers, such as pollinators in nature and the transportation sector in the human economy.