{"id":19545,"date":"2016-04-05T11:35:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19545"},"modified":"2016-04-05T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:35:03","slug":"150-strong-a-pathway-to-a-different-future-serialisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19545","title":{"rendered":"150 Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future \u2013 Serialisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cluborlov.blogspot.ca\/2016\/04\/150-strong-pathway-to-different-future.html\" target=\"_blank\">150 Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future \u2013 Serialisation<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VsgGoEPdRiU\/VwK-BtrjsZI\/AAAAAAAAG1A\/VxImAIhEySEfa1Fx1tybq1QrQEfGnlIWw\/s1600\/TREES-680x453.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VsgGoEPdRiU\/VwK-BtrjsZI\/AAAAAAAAG1A\/VxImAIhEySEfa1Fx1tybq1QrQEfGnlIWw\/s200\/TREES-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-8259753497993299848\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Creative capitalism, ethical capitalism, altruistic capitalism, natural capitalism, green capitalism, distributed and democratic capitalism. Capitalism 2.0?<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism comes with a potpourri of sweet-scented prefixes, all of which presume that there is something wrong with capitalism\u00a0<em>per se<\/em>. There are some other prefixes we commonly hear\u2014crony capitalism and unbridled capitalism\u2014that suggest that we aren\u2019t doing it right.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is Goldilocks capitalism we need? Not too mean, with just the right amount of good will and charity, a measured dose of state regulation, a safety net \u2013 not too big and not too small, and the rest left to the free market?<br \/>\n<a name=\"more\"><\/a><br \/>\nOr is capitalism just capitalism in the context of people being people? The system swings between the poles of libertarianism and social democracy according to the changing tides of voter opinion. Some capitalists have more feeling for their fellow humans than others, while there are always greedy, selfish sorts lurking to do one over the rest of us, and certain trends are inevitable according to the incentive structure inherent in the system.<\/p>\n<p>It is this last point, that outcomes tend to be inevitable according to the incentive structure operating, that serves as the starting point for a book I have recently written, titled\u00a0<em>150 Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future<\/em>, published by ClubOrlov Press. Over the coming weeks it will be serialised on Renegade Inc, with extracts presented.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of incentives, the book begins with an\u00a0<em>Author\u2019s Note<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>This book began as a response to the use of the word \u201csustainability,\u201d a concept I became connected to through my training in sustainability engineering: the design and incorporation of environmentally-friendly practices into commerce and industry. It is based on principles such as these:<\/em><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150 Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future \u2013 Serialisation Creative capitalism, ethical capitalism, altruistic capitalism, natural capitalism, green capitalism, distributed and democratic capitalism. Capitalism 2.0? Capitalism comes with a potpourri of sweet-scented prefixes, all of which presume that there is something wrong with capitalism\u00a0per se. There are some other prefixes we commonly hear\u2014crony capitalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,8773,4995,13297,769],"class_list":["post-19545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-capitalism","tag-club-orlov","tag-dimitry-orlov","tag-incentives","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19546,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19545\/revisions\/19546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}