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2018-12-07

Are We Winning? Another Measure of Success

Indicators and the UN  Social Progress Index So how do we measure success?  Recently there has been a barrage of criticism focused on the use of GDP per capita as the prime indicator of “progress”.  Counting growth certainly occupies many economists, accountants and others and among other effects has produced an obsession with growth as the […]

Article posted by Ted Manning / Articles, Trending / fake economics, Growth, Progress, values Leave a Comment

2018-05-25

Progressivism – RSA Journal

Forward thinking: Rather than marching ahead, assuming that progress is linear and that others are following, we must stop to make the case for change When the RSA was founded in 1754, the concept of ‘progress’ as we know it was just emerging. Over the course of the 18th century, it developed from being an idea […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Know-How, Knowledge, Post-Modernism, Progress, Skepticism, Techne, technology, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-05-23

Steven Pinker’s Ideas About Progress Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.

I believe we should hold it [Progress] in our steady gaze, celebrate it where it exists, understand its true causes, and most importantly, ensure that it continues in a form that future generations on this earth can enjoy. I hope this piece helps to do just that. It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / climate change, Crisis, Human-Centrism, Progress, Value, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2017-08-14

Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical

All markets need governance to protect a requisite Level Playing Field. The confusion between optimism based on the promise of human scientific progress and Capitalism as the means to further human and planet welfare helps create epistemological pathologies.   “Radical ecology” has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Complexity, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, eco-socialist, Growth, Optimism, Progress, Value, values Leave a Comment

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