Comments on: Manfred Max-Neef on the Five Principles of Economics https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/manfred-max-neef-on-the-five-principles-of-economics/2010/10/09 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:03:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Dane Clegg https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/manfred-max-neef-on-the-five-principles-of-economics/2010/10/09/comment-page-1#comment-473024 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:03:21 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=10950#comment-473024 I have been waiting for this clarity of mind since I read “None Dare Call It Conspiracy” by Gary Allen in 1976, and tried to study economics at Concordia University in Montreal, in 1978, where I had the same stone wall attitude from the professor when I mentioned, I had worked in accounting for over 3 years, and had seen how the market worked on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and asked when we were going to study the reality on the street. To which the Professor responded, “We never study the street, just the model”, I left the class, and resigned from the university, and in 1980 moved to Berkeley and helped start-up R&D computer companies transition into full production facilities (as a production control Expediter from aircraft simulator manufacturing).

]]> By: Sepp https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/manfred-max-neef-on-the-five-principles-of-economics/2010/10/09/comment-page-1#comment-443390 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:18:11 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=10950#comment-443390 What an extremely interesting interview. Be sure to follow the link to the video of Any Goodman interviewing Manfred Max-Neef. The link is in the first lines of the article.

As the economist says, we know. We know very well what should not be done, and yet politicians and bureaucrats will not pay heed. It is clear that our human economy is embedded in, is a sub-set of the economy of the environment, of our ecosystem. Yet we pretend that the ecosystem is a sub-set of our economic activities.

And to those who live in the USA, Manfred Max-Neef has some significant things to say, as well.

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