Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Malthus vs. Jackson smackdown

What can perennial wheatgrass tell us about macroeconomics?

Probably not all that much in the end, but it can help frame a way of thinking about it.

L: http://anatheimp.blogspot.com/2012/07/message-of-monoliths.html; R: http://www.livablefutureblog.com/2011/02/jackson-touts-50-year-plan-to-%E2%80%98perennialize%E2%80%99-landscape
One of the big questions in macro should be (but isn't) the extent to which a different path of technological development can allow us to do more with less.This might not seem like much of a question--Isn't that what technological progress is?