Another good article from the NEF (www.neweconomics.org), this time on practical, simple, realistic steps we can take towards economic reform to create a fairer, more stable system.
It breaks down into issues of scale, distance, stability, diversity, value, and participation.
Amongst the nice ideas in here is a sliding scale of regulation so “the smallest and most local institutions enjoying light-touch regulation, to the biggest having the strictest rules and severest controls.”
http://neftriplecrunch.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/paradigm-reclaimed-why-a-finance-system-that%E2%80%99s-fits-for-purpose-must-be-built-on-new-economic-principles/
In no particular order:
Get a base with space.
Be fit & healhty.
Read more.
Paraglide more.
Get married, have children.
Make the world better.
Save the environment.
Write a book on better business models.
Prepare for Armageddon.
Work out how the Californians are so bouncy.
Culture the meme that >2 children is socially unacceptable.
Promote the installation of drinking fountains.
I’ve been reading Nudge of late. It’s a book about rational man (doesn’t really exist) vs irrational man (does exist, is us). To
demonstrate these points it presents a few examples and mental exercises to show how we should behave vs how we do behave. And in each of these I choose the rational answer. Which is odd, because I’m also deeply irrational at times.
This pattern will come as no surprise to friends and former girlfriends, and also makes me realise why I’ve spent so much time
reading books like “How to win friends and influence people” and other books on psychology and social psychology in a bid to understand more of how and why people operate as we do. I’m reminded that a number of people have told me I’m an Asperger’s candidate.
Anyway there’s my insecure exposure for the day. What I meant to say was that “Nudge” is pretty interesting.
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