Back when I worked on different farms, I spent a good deal of time observing my working environments and considering the degree to which each farm I worked for was a closed or open system. I did this out of a curiosity to better understand what it would take to run any single farm as … Continue reading Closed System Economics: An Introduction

The sort of bad habits of thought I wrote of in last week's post, "Less is Better," do not just manifest themselves in dysfunction at the individual level. Unfortunately, they also manifest in dysfunction at the collective level, and it's these sort of dysfunctional, collective habits of thought that are one of the driving forces … Continue reading Insidious Consequences