2 “ #Paradigms are the sources of #systems. From them, from shared #social agreements about the nature of reality, come system goals and #information flows, feedbacks, stocks, flows and everything else about systems.” - #DonellaMeadows, as quoted by #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar … 🧵
“Liberalizing #markets was a philosophical and practical abdication of responsibility for the fundamental moral, ethical and political questions about how we should organize the #economy.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How #Companies Capture #Markets & Harm Canadians
“ #Canada was the 1st country in the world to institute a federal, industrial-era #competitionlaw in 1889, one year before the #UnitedStates enacted its national #antimonopoly #law, the Sherman Act, in 1890.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How #Companies Capture #Markets & Harm Canadians
“Markets are made, not born. They are #public creations and have guardrails which should be democratically determined. Who makes them, and the rules that govern them are up to us.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How Companies Capture #Markets and Harm #Canadians
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