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Now is the time for action
The bankruptcy of economics and the negligence and malfeasance of the economics profession is now evident, as I have charged since the 1960s and in my “Economists versus Ecologists”,
New York Times, October 24, 1971. The generational task of metaphysical reconstruction is almost complete, as we see all the policy and market failures around us: from climate change and pandemics to crises in our global food systems and the proliferation of space junk on our planet’s low Earth orbits, of which I also warned over 30 years ago. As Greta Thunberg tells us, the time now is for action. We know what is needed and no intellectual obfuscation or cognitive biases need to stand in our way. We must call out the cognitive biases of theory-induced blindness, described by Daniel Kahneman in his
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Scott Gates as Director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) in 2009. Photo: Marit Moe-Pryce / PRIO
‘Strong critical theory doesn’t play a big role in peace science anymore, or even in peace studies’, states American political scientist Scott Gates in this conversation with his long-term collaborator Nils Petter Gleditsch. Scott calls for more and better recording of data disaggregated in time and space; more work that takes advantage of quasi-experimental designs and other methods through which we can better ascertain causal inference; and further use of data from social media to better appreciate such phenomena as the relationship between social media use and protest activities.
One hundred years ago, Canada planned to invade America militarily. A century later, they may actually have done it through other means, and it’s the nicest kind of invasion anyone could imagine.