Of course personal mobility is part of the circular economy. Circular is from to and back again. So mobiltiy is leave home go somewhere and go back!

Hållbar omställning i praktiken Den här kursen ger dig praktiska färdigheter, teori och verktyg för att skapa verklig förändring. I kursen får du möta människor och grupper som ställer om, tar lokala initiativ och redan idag bygger ...

Detta är kursen för dig som vill omvandla oro till aktion.
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Farms are essential Real Capital Assets. Economics treats them as replaceable. | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

Sweden requires farms to keep producing during a crisis.

But economic pressure means most farms cannot afford:

Solar for when the grid fails

Animals to replace tractors

Nutrient recycling for when fertilisers run out

We should design an economy for resilience.

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Farming Is Not Just Another Business: Stop listening to economic theory We need proper agricultural policy before our food supply crashes.

Economics treats farms like factories.

If demand falls, cut production. If costs rise, move elsewhere.

But you can't move soil. You can't relocate a microclimate. You can't offshore topsoil.

Farms are not replaceable. They are critical.

Economic models are wrong
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Farms are essential Real Capital Assets. Economics treats them as replaceable. | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

Sweden requires farms to keep producing even during a crisis.

But most farms cannot afford:

Solar for when the grid fails

Animals to replace tractors

Nutrient recycling for when fertilisers run out

We demand resilience. Then we design an economy that prevents it.
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BREAKING: An Israel-backed terror group called "the United States of America" has blown up a bridge in Iran

We know how it treats money, but how does MMT treat resources? | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

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The green transition isn't a money problem.

It's a real resources problem.

Labour to build. Materials to mine and manufacture. Energy to power it all. Ecological limits to respect.

#MMT opens the fiscal door.

Now we need a systematic framework for walking through the resource door.

Read why ↓

Anti-Austerity Economics | Stockholm A one-day workshop on MMT as a guide to economic policy analysis, anti-austerity economics, and promoting social justice and ecological sustainability.

Vi behöver inte de rika, staten behöver inte låna och vi behöver inte neddragningar. Kom till Moderna Museet den 27 juni.

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Make hope normal again. 👏

The Visible Hand State Money in Times of Crisis

There is a moment in every financial crisis when the invisible hand of the market seizes up, and the very visible hand of the state must take over.
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#MMT

Since the war began, Iran has largely blocked ships from passing through the critical strait, causing a global crisis as the prices of oil, natural gas and fertilizer soar.

How you can better communicate science to policy-makers | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

—a framework that can hold scientific, economic, and social realities in a single view.
Check out the Real Capital Framework www.patreon.com/posts/how-yo...

By the time it reaches a minister’s desk, your stark warning about ecosystem collapse has been diluted into a vague footnote in a cost-benefit analysis.The problem isn't a lack of data. It's a failure of translation.

For years, we’ve needed a "Rosetta Stone" for policy >

And then… nothing much happens. It’s not that policymakers are ignorant or malicious. It’s that your vital insight has to run a gauntlet of experts—engineers, business analysts, economists, lawyers, political strategists—each with their own jargon and priorities. >

If you’re a scientist, you know the drill. You spend years on rigorous research, arrive at a critical finding about a looming environmental or public health crisis, and publish a paper. The conclusion reads something like: “These findings point to the urgent need for integrated policy responses.”>

Composting (much of) economics What I learned studying economics in the 1980s and why we must uproot the myths still shaping our future

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Composting (much of) economics What I learned studying economics in the 1980s and why we must uproot the myths still shaping our future

The dominance of economic frameworks has meant policy decisions are filtered through cost-benefit analyses, GDP growth imperatives, and market efficiency assumptions.
"Maybe now, at last, there’s a chance to reclaim economics as a practice of stewardship, of care, of real-world nourishment."

Thread Economists act as gatekeepers in policy-making, filtering (and often distorting) science-based recommendations. To ensure critical ecological and social insights reach decision-makers, scientists and consultants must develop direct communication strategies to circumvent economic gatekeeping.

The IEA’s “Sheltering from Oil Shocks” pamphlet reads like a Degrowth manual

Absolute banger of a thread from WCC about Westminster’s side zebras.

From some stunning results on their effectiveness, to the story of why @maxsullivan.bsky.social got thinking about them.

What a trailblazer this man is, installing side zebras that are “not permitted” by the DfT! ⬇️

Pensionssystemet bygger på myten om sparande. I en ekonomi med fiatvaluta kan staten finansiera pensioner direkt, stärka köpkraften och minska krisrisken. Trygga pensioner kräver stark realekonomi – inte börsberoende.
#pensioner #MMT #välfärd #ekonomi
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Really seems not great when the Israeli government is just taking one of the most famous antisemitic propaganda images in the book, making it about Muslims, and redeploying it.

In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science - Inside Climate News In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador, Shuar people are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant.

In Ecuador, nature has legal rights, but detailed scientific evidence is needed to defend them. The Ecoforensic program is training community scientists and winning cases.

In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science - Inside Climate News In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador, Shuar people are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant.

In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science insideclimatenews.org/news/2203202...

Should We Circumvent Macroeconomics with an Asset-Based Framework? | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

#MMT I'm not proposing a better production function.

I propose macro isn't the deepest layer of analysis.

Macro manages flows.
Asset stewardship manages stocks.

No stocks? Then no flows.

The layers:

Asset integrity

Provisioning capacity

Flows (GDP)

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How you can better communicate science to policy-makers | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

The RCF provides the evidence-based backbone for the advocacy and activism called for by scientists. It turns analysis into ammunition."
If you're an academic tired of the void, let's operationalize advocacy together.
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The deep rift between how the monetary system actually operates and how it is still taught | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

In 2014, the Bank of England dropped a bombshell: they admitted the "textbook" model of money is fiction.

Banks don't lend out savings. They create money from nothing.

A decade later, your textbooks still haven't been updated. Here’s why that matters for the economy
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RBA Boss says they are trying to "bring the excess demand down" - which excess demand? Unemployment is already rising and consumer spending is weak. The current inflation is supply-driven. The RBA is repeating mistakes it made in 2022 when supply fell. Now they are hiking because ships cannot sail.

Somehow the Reserve Bank thinks ships will sail through the Strait of Hormuz more quickly if they hike Australian interest rates. All they are doing is adding to the pain for low income earners of the higher petrol prices and ensuring unemployment rises (more paid). Their decision defies reason.