Difference between revisions of "Category:Economics"
m |
m |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
[http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Sustainability Sustainability] | [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Sustainability Sustainability] | ||
| + | |||
| + | A range of ideas on economics exist, from Free Marketeers (an idea in ascendancy in the US for some time, though currently in disrepute), to social entrepreneurs (who seek to use markets to improve the lives of poor people, see the UCSC Atlas of Global Inequality and Gapminder to get some sense of this), to the idea of suicidal capitalism (the idea that growth for growth's sake on a finite planet will be catastrophic). | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''People''' | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus Muhammad Yunus] founder of the Grameen Bank, which makes micro-loans all over the world, empowering people in many ways, not least of which to give them the option on not exhausting their local habitats in order to survive in the short term. Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus Muhammad Yunus] founder of the Grameen Bank, which makes micro-loans all over the world, empowering people in many ways, not least of which to give them the option on not exhausting their local habitats in order to survive in the short term. Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | '''Books''' | ||
| + | |||
| + | [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0805087222/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link ''Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future''] | ||
| + | Bill McKibben | ||
Revision as of 17:41, 21 December 2008
See also Globalization
A range of ideas on economics exist, from Free Marketeers (an idea in ascendancy in the US for some time, though currently in disrepute), to social entrepreneurs (who seek to use markets to improve the lives of poor people, see the UCSC Atlas of Global Inequality and Gapminder to get some sense of this), to the idea of suicidal capitalism (the idea that growth for growth's sake on a finite planet will be catastrophic).
People
Muhammad Yunus founder of the Grameen Bank, which makes micro-loans all over the world, empowering people in many ways, not least of which to give them the option on not exhausting their local habitats in order to survive in the short term. Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Books
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future Bill McKibben
