Miho Soon

Dec 2, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Miho Soon |Adam Hanieh |Mark Dummett

The market, as a social and economic institution, is fundamentally a process designed to facilitate human life by bringing consumers and producers together. It ensures economic activities serve the social purpose of satisfying the diverse needs of human beings. This relationship was not merely based on exchange relationships but also built on trust—trust in the product, the price, and the producer.

Nov 30, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Tawakkol Karman |Otto Scharmer |Miho Soon

Visiting several villages of Karauli district (Rajasthan, India) recently, it was generally not difficult to reach them. However the situation changed dramatically when going to Rawatpura village located in Sapotra block. Here the paths were very difficult to negotiate and at the same time very dusty too. The paths to various widely scattered, remote villages are not at all easy to identify and the task is best left to local persons or those with the experience of very frequent coming and going.

Nov 29, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Tawakkol Karman |Otto Scharmer |Miho Soon

Efforts to increase food production generally emphasize intensively developed areas which already have high levels of production. On the one hand many areas recording much lower levels of food production are neglected as areas of low potential. However it is in some of the areas of present day low production that there may be more future potential of increasing food production.

Nov 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Otto Scharmer |Miho Soon |Richard Heinberg |Bharat Dogra

Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s NextIn 2024, over 2 billion of us voted in national elections. So what have we learned so far this year, in general and from the US election in particular? In the seven observations & reflections below I offer some of my own initial sensemaking as part of a broader conversation happening now.

Nov 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Miho Soon |Richard Heinberg |Bhabani Nayak |Bharat Dogra

Rethinking abundance, wellbeing, and security in a post-growth world. To offer a meaningful alternative economic system, I believe it is essential that we engage with what we dream of as ‘good lives ‘— the diverging stories, in their own framing and in their own language, of what this looks like to different people all around the world.