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Tag Archives: Neo-liberal Economics
Nature and Corporate Neoliberal Economics in Conflict
The laws of nature and the laws of corporate-based neoliberal economics are in conflict. Continue reading
Industrial Farming: The Deeper Roots of Animal Cruelty
My father was a gentle stockman, and he cared for people the same. He taught us how to hunt up and how to use presence and eye when mustering, and how not to push cattle too hard. He had a … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use, Thought Pieces
Tagged Agro-ecology, Alternative Vision, Animal Cruelty, Commodity trap, Corporate Influence, Land Degradation, Local Development, Mechanistic Worldview, Neo-liberal Economics, People as Cogs, Production vs. Value & Price, resilience, Sustainable Land Management, Value not volume
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Are we in the Endgame of the Age of the Zombie Neoliberal Cult and Corporate Influence
Let us document the changes, the shift in consciousness that is happening around the world, the signs of hope. The 1 percent (or is it the top 0.1 percent) – An interviewer of Russel Brand challenged him that the Occupy movement … Continue reading
The TPPA and New Zealand’s Democracy
Presented in weekly radio spot on Hawke’s Bay local radio station Bay FM. The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations are concluded, and have shifted to the next phase – ratification by parliaments. The government is spinning like a … Continue reading
Posted in Building Regional Economies, Thought Pieces
Tagged Commoditisation, Commodity trap, Democracy, Neo-liberal Economics, TPPA, Trade
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Summarising the Neo-Liberal Agenda – A Letter to Treasury
Dear Treasury neo-liberals, and mega-corporate backers of Ayn Rand et al. in various university neo-liberal seminaries. My Adam Smith quote of the day. “The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened … Continue reading
Posted in Thought Pieces
Tagged Adam Smith, Better economics, Colonisation, Corporate Power, Neo-liberal Economics, The Market
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Reframing our Water as a Commons
This article was published in the Hawke’s Bay Today following the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s (HBRC) decision to allow an overseas water bottling plant to take water from the high quality aquifer that lies beneath the cities of Hasting and Napier. … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use, Socio-ecological Systems, Thought Pieces, Wicked Problems
Tagged Alternative Vision, Better economics, Common Pool Resources, Commons, Culture-Nature, Development, Environmental Ethics, HBRC, Heretaunga Aquifer, Neo-liberal Economics, Privatisation of the Commons, Privatisation of Water, Socio-Ecological Systems, Water Rights
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