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 […]
Issue 02: Towards Ecological Sanity
Editorial: Saying Enough Can we say “More” to real fulfilment? Our theme for this issue of Bhoomi is ‘Towards Ecological Sanity’. We have, after all, been […]
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 […]
Seeing the Connections: Food, Health and Climate Change
In this era of oil, technology and information, all of us are busy all the time. There is so much to do, so many demands […]
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 […]