Afshin Rattansi interview with J. K. Galbraith

See his book The Power to Destroy: How Bad Economics Drove America’s Decline.

My comment:

22:30 Jevon's "law" is just a consequence of economics being complete BS. It is a consequence of people's belief that earning money is the only means by which human beings can survive. Justify that belief first before you start talking about laws of human behaviour. 

And another:

Unhooking from the US/UK financial system could be done in a matter of months.

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My comment:

Economists are idiots! They don't know about anything real and so they think reality is economics. It's not. Economics is a load of hot air and economists have nothing useful to contribute to human knowledge.

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See Hope - It's not Just France and Italy, ... for half a clue about what a real economy needs to based upon.

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