There are two broad criteria by which one can judge humanity's success in feeding itself: (i) the proportion of people whose access to basic nutritional requirements is secure; and (ii) the extent to which global food production is sustainable. Even though the two are related, they have usually...

There are two broad criteria by which one can judge humanity's success in feeding itself: (i) the proportion of people whose access to basic nutritional requirements is secure; and (ii) the extent to which global food production is sustainable. Even though the two are related, they have usually...

Contemporary economic thinking, including the prevailing economics of climate change, does not recognize that we are embedded in Nature; it instead sees humanity as customers drawing on Nature. In this paper we present a grammar for economic reasoning that is not subject to that error. The...