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- 15.6.22 Book review: The Invention of Humanity (Stuurman 2017)
- 27.5.2022 – What is good in life, on feedback loops possibly leading to collapse
- 20.5.2022 Friday – On extinction risk, commons risk, “natural disasters”
- 19.5.2022 – Bitcoin, Tether, Beanstalk
- On the Kremlin’s imperialism
- A Very Short And Fairly Understandable Introduction to Models
- What if we really tried to save our civilization? An introduction to Plan B
- Book review: McAfee (2019), More from Less
- Technology in a Post-Growth World: Lessons from the 1970s AT Movement
Category Archives: Notes in process
27.5.2022 – What is good in life, on feedback loops possibly leading to collapse
In early 2002, I had an epiphany. I had been depressed for months and queried whether there is even any point in living any more: in the long run, we are all dead, and whatever we achieve will crumble in … Continue reading
19.5.2022 – Bitcoin, Tether, Beanstalk
Jessica McKenzie writes about the less known trend in Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin miners and fossil fuel firms, which increasingly tend to be the one and the same thing, are buying gas-fired generators and use them right next to gas wellheads. … Continue reading
A Very Short And Fairly Understandable Introduction to Models
Created Monday 29 June 2020 At …and Then There’s Physics , there was a post about the recent Nature comment on a “modelling manifesto”, “Five ways to ensure that models serve society”. I’ve despaired in the past about some of … Continue reading
Technology in a Post-Growth World: Lessons from the 1970s AT Movement
Hello again! This post about lessons we could learn from the 1970s Appropriate/Alternative Technology movement is derived from a presentation I gave at Helsinki Sustainability Science Days 2019, 9.5.2019. The entire presentation can be found here. The above presentation and … Continue reading
Practical policies for transition towards post-capitalist, post-scarcity society
One question I get asked a lot is that post-capitalism and post-scarcity sound like good ideas in theory, but how do we get from here to there in practice? In other words: What are the actual, concrete political projects we … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in process, post-scarcity, Uncategorized
Tagged post-scarcity, Research
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Post-scarcity: a research review (in progress!)
I’ve been slowly going through research literature on post-scarcity and so-called scarcity, abundance and sufficiency (SAS) school of thought. TL;DR version: post-scarcity economy, where the economic problem of production has for all intents and purposes been solved and all the basic … Continue reading
My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)
I’ve spent the last 15 months researching the implications and possibilities of blockchains and related “distributed trust technologies” from a business and societal point of view. Sadly, I have to say that I don’t quite get the hype, as much … Continue reading
Critique of econometric models in Thinking in Systems: a Primer
Donella Meadows’s book Thinking in Systems: A Primer (pp. 89-90) contains a rather interesting critique of econometric models and their limitations in explaining and predicting what happens in the world. While Meadows acknowledges that econometric models are more useful than … Continue reading
Posted in Economy and the Environment, Notes in process
Tagged Econometrics, Economics, Modeling, Research
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The unpublished notebooks of J. M. Korhonen 
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