The finance sector has quadrupled in the past few decades. Paul volker, commenting on that, former chair of the fed, said there's not much going on to create more value. There's a lot of innovations that allow the financial sector to suck more wealth from the rest of the economy. We don't mention the fact i'm depleting our wealth stocks, but that money loan for productive production is directly increasing the claims on our finite resource base.
Show Summary:
On this episode we meet with ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Josh Farley.
Money. What is it? Where does it come from? How is it created? How is it tethered to our biophysical balance sheet? What is on the horizon with our monetary system? How might we create and use money differently in the future during a source and sink contained system? Josh Farley explains it all - and explains how the links between money, energy, and the economy will become more central in our lives.
Click here to listen to Josh and Nate’s first conversation.
About Josh Farley:
Joshua Farley is an ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration at the University of Vermont. He is the President of the International Society for Ecological Economics.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/29-josh-farley