> ... for every $100 of economic growth, only 60 cents reach the billion poor in the world. This is based on a report from the New Economic Foundation, available here. Clearly this is a decidedly inefficient way of distributing wealth. As they state: “someone is profiting from economic growth, but it is not the world's poor.”
https://gardenearth.blogspot.com/2013/03/lagom-is-good-enough.html
#GunnarRundgren #Lagom #EnoughIsEnough #RobDietz #DanONeill #Economics

@babelcarp Important article! But I felt frustrated not to read of broader views, policies, and models to avoid feeling futile and hopeless. I was enticed by mentions of #RebeccaSolnit and #AmitavGhosh but then left hanging without hints that we can build a #ParadiseInHell and avoid the #GreatDerangement with a decent conception of the #GoodLife that Ghosh says is "mimetic." I guess NYT is limiting, hopefully he'll fill out the promising parts as a book, #RobDietz's #EnoughIsEnough would help!

> “We manage what we measure” is a cliché often uttered in business boardrooms, but... true. You could also say that we “#mismanage what we #mismeasure.”.. we mismanage the scale of the economy because we’re treating an indicator of its size—#GDP—as if it were a measure of social performance. If we want to achieve a #sustainable and #FairEconomy that provides a high quality of life, it’s crucial to get the measures right.
https://ssir.org/books/excerpts/entry/enough_is_enough
#RobDietz #DanOneill #Enough #PeterDrucker

Two bilingual (English/#日本語) one-page printouts based on the United Nations Web Magazine pages by #RobDietz. Parts of the first chapter of #EnoughIsEnough are on-line AND translated into #Japaense. Now I can hand out decent, extra reading material from this century. Bertrand Russel's writings from the 1920s and 30s are still eerily relevant, but I like this combination of new Econ and ancient #老子 LaoZi
- https://bsmall2.codeberg.page/pages/Enough/Enough-is-Enough-Excerpts-en-ja.html
- https://bsmall2.codeberg.page/pages/Enough/Collapse-ToDo.html
- https://bsmall2.codeberg.page/pages/Enough/R33-versions.html
#EFLJapan

> “In the sixth century BCE, #LaoTzu.. wrote that the person who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. It has taken us twenty-six centuries.. forget that, and it is high time to relearn it. #RobDietz and #DanONeill provide a compelling case.. an accessible guide.. simple and achievable steps”
#MollyScottCato.. author of #EnvironmentAndEconomy on #EnoughIsEnough
https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Rob%20Dietz/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20(1161)/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20-%20Rob%20Dietz.pdf
#Enoughness #知足 #足るを知る #老子

> For the Hebrews in the wilderness the #MannaEconomy was design#ed with “enough” as a built-in feature. Our economy does not have that automatic regulation. We have to recognize the value of enough and build it into our economic institutions and culture...
#HermanDaly in the Foreword to #EnoughIsEnough by #RobDietz and #DanONeill

_#EnoughIsEnough_ by #RobDietz and #DanONeill with a Foreword by #HermanDaly. These are names I've been seeing in #NaomiKlein's #ThisChangesEverything and #KoheiSaito's book on the #Anthropocene. It feels like Fate to stumble on a whole book about #Enoughness just when it's been preoccupying me more than usual since last night...
#知足 #足るを知る #老子46 #LaoTzu46 https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Rob%20Dietz/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20(1161)/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20-%20Rob%20Dietz.pdf