The Lodge at Woodloch Brought Me Back to Life
February 5, 2010
It didn’t really matter that in the past few months I’ve taken over a company, finished a book, and said the long, big good-bye to my mother. It didn’t really matter that it was my birthday and I was giving myself a present. I still felt sharp pangs of guilt as I said good-bye to my little darlings and headed for a spa in the Poconos.
These days any sign of excess is uncool, and it’s hard… more
Comments (5)The End of GDP: A New Economic Model Closer to Nature
September 28, 2009
I hate it when I have an idea, and then Nobel Prize-winning economists get all the credit for thinking of it first. That’s what happened last week when I read in the New York Times about Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen (my all-time favorite economist) recommending that we do away with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the ultimate measure of the health of a country and its economy.
The truth is, recessions are fairly predictable. Since the founding of America, we’ve had one at… more
Comments (4)Let’s Put the “Eco” Back in “Economics”
December 16, 2008
Be careful what you wish for…
As a businessperson, I’ve always cringed when I’ve heard environmentalists cry to their faithful to “consume less.” Of course that’s the right thing to do, but the whole focus of our economic security in our global culture is based on consuming more. Growth, production, and consumer confidence are false gods, but they are our… more
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