Nate Hagens: From Wall St. to Ecological Economics

By Justin Ritchie, originally published by The Extraenvironmentalist

July 1, 2013

In this interview from the 2013 US Society of Ecological Economics Conference we speak with Nate Hagens about his experience on Wall St. and how it led him to become an ecological economist. Nate describes how the human economy transforms raw materials into brain chemicals.

Justin Ritchie

Justin is in Vancouver, BC where he reads books, researches energy, carbon and financial systems at the University of British Columbia Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability while occasionally walking in the forest.

Tags: ecological economics, evolutionary biology, money, Resource Depletion

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Pirate Care frontispiece

Pirate Care as a Revolutionary Act

By David Bollier, 10+ indigenous authors, David Bollier blog

For an illuminating deep dive on the politics of care, check out a new book, Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity (Pluto Press).

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The irony is that in this economy, women do distaff work for wages — usually benefitting women of higher socio-economic class — and struggle to keep their own home functioning because their wages and time are insufficient for the household work they can no longer do for themselves.

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