Regarding David Suzuki’s inability to understand “externality”
How can it be that David Suzuki can so consistently and for so long get this straightforward concept so spectacularly wrong? If you ask an economist where in your economic graphs – with all these...
View ArticleA review of Economyths: Ten Ways Economics Gets it Wrong, by David Orrell
David Orrell, a mathematician who works on biological problems, recently published a book called Economyths: Ten Ways Economics Gets It Wrong. Economyths is a terrible, willfully ignorant, deeply...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki still hasn’t figured out what an “externality” is
A reader of this (seemingly defunct, but stay tuned) blog sent me a link to a portion of a movie called Surviving Progress in which Dr. Suzuki gives an even more offensive, ridiculous, and staggeringly...
View ArticleExternality [ek-ster-nal-i-tee] [noun]: “We don’t give a shit.”
An alert reader of yesterday’s post regarding David Suzuki’s ongoing confusion over the concept of an “externality” pointed me to an interview with Professor Suzuki in a magazine called Common Ground....
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