Issue 06: GAIA
Editorial: Economics to suit Gaia Gaia, the Greek Earth Goddess came into prominence in recent years after James Lovelock wrote his path breaking book of the […]
Economy
Swaraj: A Deeper Freedom
In Hind Swaraj, Gandhi exhorts using ‘soul force’ as a means to seek ‘right livelihood’ – which is what real freedom is all about. Gandhi’s […]
Education for Happiness
New ways to measure human wellbeing. THE TINY HIMALAYAN kingdom of Bhutan is an unlikely place for the birth of an international trend. Yet Bhutan […]
Economy and Society: The Gandhian Perspective
True economics never militates against the highest ethical standard, just as all true ethics, to be worth its name, must at the same time, be […]
Seeking Real Wealth
The Credit crunch and the Nature crunch provide an opportunity to redesign our money system and our economies in such a way that we can […]
Living within our Means
If we are to avoid the ultimate recession, the only available global solution lies in designing sustainable capitalism – one that builds the foundations for […]
Understanding Growth and GDP
There is something terribly wrong with ‘growth’ economics… If we plant a tree, there is no growth. If you cut down a tree there is […]
The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
The GPI is a more accurate measure of a country’s progress since it takes into account the environmental costs of economic activity. Econometrics is the […]
Annadana: The Gift of Food
The sanctity of food is being erased by the commoditization of cuIture. I think the very first thing to recognize about food is that it […]
Cuba’s Organic Revolution
Why Cuba is the only nation to achieve sustainable development One may wonder what significance an agro-ecological resurgence in Cuba has in India, which is […]