Frederic Jennings

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Frederic Jennings |Eliza Daley

Mainstream critiques of Gabbard’s compromises miss the forest for the treesLast month, when former U.S. congressional representative Tulsi Gabbard spoke at the controversial BAPS temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey, it marked her first major public appearance since being nominated as the country’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Gabbard has faced a wave of critics and skeptics ever since the nomination.

Aug 31, 2023 | resilience.org | Nate Hagens |Frederic Jennings |Frederick Clayton

(Conversation recorded on August 1st, 2023)Show SummaryOn this episode, ‘Superorganisms’ converge as Nate is joined by economist and anthropologist Lisi Krall to discuss the evolutionary origins of our current systemic predicament. Starting with the Agricultural Revolution, the evolutionary conditions of surplus and ultrasociality have combined to shape the way humans interact with their environment, ultimately leading to our current out of control global economy.

Jun 26, 2023 | mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de | Frederic Jennings

Jennings, Frederic (2023): What Went So Wrong in Economics. Abstract Abstract What went so wrong in economics started in 1939 with ‘The Hicksian Getaway,’ where – after over ten years of debate assuming increasing returns – Hicks asserted decreasing returns as the basis for his competitive frame, dismissing any “useful analysis” of increasing returns. After winning the 1972 Nobel Prize for his 1939 work, Hicks (1977, pp.

Apr 17, 2023 | resilience.org | Frederic Jennings |Peter Victor |Andrew Simms |Jason Hickel

AbstractA ruling orthodoxy in academics is pathological, symptomatic of models unfit to their realms of use. Substitution assumptions do not apply in a complementary setting. Pluralism ought to be normal; this is not the case. Choices are based on imagined projections whose costs are invisible, limned theoretically yet unobserved. ‘If all we have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.’ Substitution assumptions say our relations involve a conflict of interests.

Feb 15, 2023 | resilience.org | Frederic Jennings

SUMMARYHere economics is analyzed in terms of three elements: atoms, bits and wits. Atoms are physical outputs, whose scarcity augments worth. Bits are intangibles; network effects link abundance to worth where complementarity rules; here, competition fails and cooperation is efficient. Learning counts for growth.