The Bolder Boulding
Keith Ruckhaus and Alec Tsoucatos
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Writer and theologian, Keith Ruckhaus, and professor of economics, Alec Tsoucatos explain and explore strategies of a steady-state economics as a necessary alternative to globalized neo-liberal economics
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Jul 2, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 13
Keith and Alec revisit a theme that has run throughout the series: What will it take to change the narrative away from the neo-liberal economic storyline that has dominated the American psyche for the last 50 years?
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Jul 2, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 12
Keith and Alec continue their discussion of international trade within the context of steady state economics. They focus on reasonable and practical responses to the problems of globalization.
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Jul 2, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 11
Alec and Keith discuss the issues of international trade as it relates to the strategies for a steady-state economy.
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Jul 1, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 10
Alec and Keith discuss population control as another one of the strategies for a steady-state economy.
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Jul 1, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 9
Keith and Alec expand their discussion of land as "natural capital" in connection with Herman Daley's and Henry George's advocacy toward restructuring tax to natural resources and away from capital and labor.
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Jul 1, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 8
Keith and Alec continue to explore the critical relationship of land and economics. They explore the notion of ownership and property within the framework of capitalism and rights and the downward spiral of natural destruction, economic inequality, and exclusion of essential elements of life.
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Jun 30, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 7
Alec and Keith discuss natural capital and the issues around land ownership and use in a steady-state (spaceship) economy rather than our current (cowboy) economy.
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Jun 30, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 6
Alec and Keith continue their discussion of public banking addressing the main criticisms to it.
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Jun 30, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 5
Alec introduces public banking as another feature of a steady state economy.
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Jun 14, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Covid Addition Session 4
Keith and Alec discuss the shortcomings of GDP as an appropriate measure of economic vitality and well-being and discuss alternatives.
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Jun 14, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Covid Addition Session 3
Alec and Keith meander a bit. They expand virus to apply to spiritual, ideological, and economic operations and question how the covid-19 crisis reveals a deeper problem in all of us. The need to transform the the narrative, storyline, or worldview is increasingly critical.
They continue their discussion of income inequality.
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Jun 14, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Covid Addition Session 2
Alec and Keith meander a bit. They expand virus to apply to spiritual, ideological, and economic operations and question how the covid-19 crisis reveals a deeper problem in all of us. The need to transform the the narrative, storyline, or worldview is increasingly critical.
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Jun 14, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Covid Addition Session 1
Alec and Keith discuss how the Covid pandemic reveals the fatal flaws of the current economic ideology and the ways to change it.
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Jun 14, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 4
Keith and Alec discuss the dynamic between income and wealth disparity and its relationship to well-being.
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Jun 11, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 1
Keith Ruckhaus and Alec Tsoucatos introduce and explore the strategies a steady-state economics, also known as ecological or practical idealism economics inspired by Kenneth Boulding and Herman Daily.
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Jun 3, 2021
The Bolder Boulding Session 3
Decreasing economic disparity is the first and probably the most critical strategy that must be addressed to move toward an "ecological economics."
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Jun 3, 2021
Bolder Boulding Session 2
Alec provides a brief history of steady-state economics beginning with Kenneth Boulding and culminating the the work by Herman Daly. Twelve strategies for implementing a steady-state economy are introduced.
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