Re: Shiny stuff and designer societies

On 10/29/2015 08:19 AM, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:

Truecost being some unrealistic form of cost determination?

True cost economics is "Unrealistic"? Surely you jest... It's difficult to measure because the variables in /"An economic model that seeks to include the cost of negative externalities into the pricing of goods and services.//"(1) /can be enormous, but the ability to 'do the math' is hardly unrealistic. /"Economics, in its current form, is a very limited science."(2)/ and true-costing acts to de-limit it. 1 http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/truecosteconomics.asp 2 http://www.utne.com/community/truecosteconomics.aspx RR