Real Life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation

What Max-Neef’s Human Scale Development Can Teach Us About Poverty

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It is part of nature. And yet, as the Neoliberal Story described above starts out, there is a presumed separation of markets from the natural environment.

Their story of wealth creation pretends that nature had no value before it was monetized by industrial activities. Said in more concrete terms, the reason we place a big fat zero in the number column of our spreadsheets for the price of nature is because it is presumed to be without value.

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At this point in the discussion, we can see that wealth was already there in the form of natural environments that made life possible for humans to behave as economic beings. This becomes evident when we look at the flip side of wealth creation in modern economies, where poverty creation makes possible the hoarding of wealth in Capitalist systems.

My collaborators and I wrote a longer article about it for Fast Company read it here.

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In brief, it can be described like this:. A concrete example is the Enclosure Movement of 17th Century Britain.

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It was a time when peasant farmers were forcibly removed from their land, where they had engaged in subsistence farming for generations. Wealthy merchants and aristocrats began a systematic campaign to privatize the land-based commons and kick the peasants off their land, which they turned into sheep runs for the highly profitable wool industry. Millions of people were forcibly displaced, creating a monumental humanitarian crisis. We have our current distribution of wealth around the world thanks to a long history of colonialism by Western empires followed by economic imperialism in the post-colonial patterns of economic development that followed.

The West is rich because they took resources from other parts of the world. No story of wealth creation is complete without a corresponding story of poverty creation. Now that we know how to translate the findings of physics into a description based on information, it should not surprise us to find that the distribution of wealth is a kind of information in its own right.

Where there is order in an economic system, there must correspondingly be a measure of disorder somewhere else in the system… as physicists would say, every thermodynamic process there is an increase in entropy. Even in ideal circumstances it can only stay the same. Entropy never goes down.

Real-Life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation by Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef

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Since the end of the Second World War, industrial economic activity has been generated on an unparalleled scale. This continuous search for yet greater output and productivity have been dominant policy objectives of practically every country in the world for the past 50 years. However, there is a cost for industrial growth on this scale and the price has been and is being paid in widespread social and cultural disruption and potentially catastrophic effects on the global environment.

Real Life Economics challenges traditional economic theories which have promoted this situation and constructs an economic framework within which it can be both understood and ameliorated.

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