Wonderful! This is one of the last books my late partner read before he died. He built two med tech companies, took both public, sat on several corporate boards & was a venture investor. He understood economics and thought we needed a broader lens for defining a healthy economy. He recommended the book so I read it after his death. I was disappointed. Raworth reminds me of education pundits who have inspiring ideas for transforming learning but little understanding of what society expects from schools. Your critique is thorough & clear. Thanks!
“So even lefty intellectuals in the UK or Sweden realize that the idea of degrowth, applied across the world, would be a monstrous crime against humanity.”
Actually, the monstrous crime against humanity is currently ongoing: Musk and his DOGE Big Tech Babies dismantled USAID, an administrative genocide that eventually will kill more people than the Nazi Death Camps. Worry about ‘lefty intellectuals” shouldn’t be a priority. I think the reason the Gaza genocide garners more attention than the creation of a vast killing machine via dismantling USAID is because Musk and DOGE designed a dismantling degrowth system that kills indiscriminately, whereas it easier to simplify and concentrate the mass media’s attention on an ages-old Mideast geopolitical conflict.
Sometimes I think the world has an oversupply of smart and "smart" people. With an undersupply of humble insightful thinkers.
Paradigm changers know in almost every case, absolutely everything about the "giant shoulders they stand on".
Galileo knew all about the world of Aristotle and Stole my.
Newton knew everything about them and Galileo and Copernicus.
Einstein and Bohr knew everything that Newton knew.
Even Steve Jobs, Bill Gates knew everything about the science and technology of computers and software.
I do appreciate that the Paradigms of Macroeconomics have fuzzy and sometimes amorphous boundaries.
Good review!
Thanks!!
Wonderful! This is one of the last books my late partner read before he died. He built two med tech companies, took both public, sat on several corporate boards & was a venture investor. He understood economics and thought we needed a broader lens for defining a healthy economy. He recommended the book so I read it after his death. I was disappointed. Raworth reminds me of education pundits who have inspiring ideas for transforming learning but little understanding of what society expects from schools. Your critique is thorough & clear. Thanks!
Most of the Hetrodox economists might just be, as Noah insinuated here, those who can't handle the math. :)
“So even lefty intellectuals in the UK or Sweden realize that the idea of degrowth, applied across the world, would be a monstrous crime against humanity.”
Actually, the monstrous crime against humanity is currently ongoing: Musk and his DOGE Big Tech Babies dismantled USAID, an administrative genocide that eventually will kill more people than the Nazi Death Camps. Worry about ‘lefty intellectuals” shouldn’t be a priority. I think the reason the Gaza genocide garners more attention than the creation of a vast killing machine via dismantling USAID is because Musk and DOGE designed a dismantling degrowth system that kills indiscriminately, whereas it easier to simplify and concentrate the mass media’s attention on an ages-old Mideast geopolitical conflict.