What we learned this week

I’ve been saying it for years, so it’s interesting to see the New York Times run an article asking if degrowth would be good for Japan. Not sure how the communism comes into it, but I’m looking forward to the English translation of Kohei Saito’s book Slow Down, out next year.

On a related note, Australia is taking steps towards measuring wellbeing, an important precursor to reducing dependence on the fundamentally flawed concept of GDP as a marker of progress.

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