Newsletter You're thinking about the energy transition the wrong way Last time that the engines of container-ships got much more efficient, it was hailed as great news: after all, it would cause less pollution. I tried to argue that it is actually bad news: it would only result in even more shipping-volumes, because the owner can ship more stuff, but
The wickedest problem in fixing the economy The latest book by Doyne Farmer, 'Making sense of Chaos: a better economics for a better world" is an absolute gem. Farmer is one of the founding fathers of so-called Complexity Economics. In this book, he describes how this school of thought fundamentally differs from mainstream economics. I
Why economic complexity is the root cause of the polycrisis There is consensus on the narrative that we have a systemic crisis, that our current 'economic system' is in overshoot. In targeting this crisis, the most intuitive way is to address the behavior of agents/actors/individuals in this system, with legal and regulatory measures, such as curbing
Economic Growth Map What does the bullshit economy tell us? Today we are experiencing more of a bullshit economy than a real economy. The advent of the IT-era has resulted in a lot of jobs being replaced, but also in a lot of new types of jobs being created. The pre-information-industrial economy provided value in tangible assets and associated services:
Welcome The Systemic Point of View This is "The Map Room", a brand new publication, initiated by EntropoMetrics' Martijn Veening, that's just getting started, promoting a technical/non-technical Systemic Point of View of the current global polycrisis. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the
Lifecycle Map Life, death and doughnuts Any entity or system that we call 'living' will eventually die. This holds at any scale, from cellular level to ecosystems, and even our socio-economic, financial and technological domains. To understand why, it is best to look at a such a system as an infrastructure for a specific
Economic Growth Map Degrowth, and the widening gap between natural- and social science economics By not embracing natural-science economics, the degrowth-paradigm is destined to fail
Newsletter Fiat and crypto actually share the same enemy Why the debate between crypto and fiat is missing the point
