REFERENCES AND QUOTES Philosophy 2021 Realize that we have the power to create (and regulate) - References and quotes PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH “There is, of course, something of an irony here. Because at the end of the day the answer to the question of whether growth is functional for stability is this: in a growth-based economy, growth is functional for stability. The capitalist model appears to have no easy route towards a steady state position. Its natural dynamics seem to push it towards one of two states: expansion or collapse." 109 Stop the structural reliance on continued growth 134 “With the wrong policy, instability is entirely possible in a no-growth economy just as it is in a growth-based economy.” 193 Policy shapes and co-creates the social world See Common cause on no value neutral policy and policy feedback 12 203 “Social stability rests on economic stability. In a growth-based economy, economic stability rests on growth. So government finds itself needing to promote economic growth just in order to maintain stability. To do this, of course, it needs citizens to be consumers. More than that, it needs them to be a particular kind of individualistic and materialistic consumer with a continued appetite for consumer novelty. And this need persists even where it conflicts with the best intentions of government to protect or enhance social and ecological goods.” 206 I ARBETSSAMHÄLLET – HUR ARBETET ÖVERLEVDE TEKNOLOGIN Some reproduces the society more than others and Schmooanimals 88 Economic loss creates resistance. Different class related attitudes towards Schmoo-animals 89 Technology could be Schmoo-animals 90 The uncritical acceptance of claims of rationality and efficiency 95 All power is built on violence. Steven Lukes and three faces of power: decision-making power, non-decision and ideological making power. John Stuart Mills description of patriarchic system. When submissiveness forms identity the oppressed becomes the apologetics of the oppressor. 113 Pursuit of power, an existential fear 167 submissiveness to the arbitrariness of power 184 I DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST Power to reshape the rules of economy. Inequality in power. See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER 158, ARBETSSAMHÄLLET – HUR ARBETET ÖVERLEVDE TEKNOLOGIN Lobbying and golden rule 79 Cocreating reality 86 Success to the successful, Monopoly, Elizabathe Magie, Henry George, Sugarscap and inequality. Luck has to do with it 126 Distributive design, change wealth ownership of 1. Land 2. Money creation. 3 Enterprise. 4. Technology and 5. Knowledge. 147 State/government as taxer, giver of subsidies, regulator, long-term investor and measurer of sustainability State as regulator, “Taxes and subsidies can move markets, as we have seen, but the transformation from degenerative to regenerative industrial design needs to be backed by regulation too. At its most simple, it means phasing out the use of ‘red list’ chemicals and polluting productions processes, while phasing in the use of life-friendly chemistry only, along with net-zero and net-positive industrial standards. The world’s most progressive enterprises are already aiming to perform to such standards: economy-wide regulation requiring regenerative design will ultimately help to move those ambitious business practices from being a rare exception to becoming the industry norm.” Market is not enough. State as a risk-taking partner for sustainability – Chinese government providing finance and other support for renewable energy. The Oberlin Project. Orr “We need to recalibrate prosperity with the way that ecosystems work and what they can actually regenerate” 196 Reframing tax and keep on taxing. Share work. 226 I THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER Reduce the gain around a reinforcing loop and avoid collapse 155 Stop reinforcing the success to the successful loop. Slow the growth through progressive income tax, inheritance, universal high-quality education. 156 Compelling feedback, put politician who decide on war to be on the frontlines. 157 Who has the power of the rules 158 Kuhn, to change paradigm: “keep pointing at the anomalies and failures in the old paradigm. You keep speaking and acting, loudly and with assurance, from the new one. You insert people with the new paradigm in places of public visibility and power. You don’t waste time with reactionaries; rather, you work with active change agents and with the vast middle ground of people who are open-minded.” 164 Information holds systems together, information is power 173 I MYTEN OM MASKINEN: ESSÄER OM MAKT; MODERNITET OCH MILJÖ. Von Thünen, Cuzco and modern transportation of perishable goods. 162 It is based on power to make claims on the resources of other human beings, based in the oyster shells or money fetishism 162, 163 The distinguishing trait of the modern society is the abstract usage of language with which it strives to encompass and engulf other cultural systems of meaning, a sort of cultural imperialism. Imperialism as who gets to build models of whom. Economic word of utility is an example. Utility as an imperialistic concept. Utility is given meaning by the cultural context and is nothing without it. However it becomes a tool to reduce cultural preferences to a manipular measure. The interchangeability is the foundation of modernity and money gives utility a material and socioecological potent form. Technology as a cultural accepted way to achieve certain culturally accepted goals. 178 I ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS – PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS Box 22.1 how wealth creates power See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER on “Success to the successful”. Problem of wealth as status : 1. Conspicious consumption increases scale 2. Creates a damaging zero sum positional race. 391 I POWER – A RADICAL VEIW SECOND EDITION “the capacity to secure compliance to domination through the shaping of beliefs and desires, by imposing internal constraints under historically changing circumstances.” 146 To encouragement Next encouragement