I am a math instructor at Langara College in Vancouver. My doctorate is actually in math education, but I am currently most interested in economics and special relativity. I have never published in economics, but despair every time I try to read a
...MoreI am a math instructor at Langara College in Vancouver. My doctorate is actually in math education, but I am currently most interested in economics and special relativity. I have never published in economics, but despair every time I try to read an article in economics because inevitably various conservative assumptions about the nature of our socity creep into the discussion. The inconsistencies are truely astonishing, for example, mercantilism has long been discredited as a national economic strategy, but economists regularly dispatch analyses that amount to personal mercantilism. If we are going to understand the economics of sustainability it seems axiomatic to me that we have to use a theory that is built on principles of sustainability. Hence, I am calling for a revolution in economics.
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