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  • Excerpt: Comparing what economists and climate scientists say about climate change

    This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 4. Apocalypse Nord This section is a side-by-side comparison of what mainstream economists versus climate scientists say about climate change. In this section, we use the generally accepted shorthand for warming: e.g., “2 degrees of warming” is shorthand for an average global temperature increase 2…

  • Excerpt: These policies led to the Great Depression…what could go wrong?

    This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 3. When the hottest commodity is human suffering The dominant model of development imagines that poor countries can harness the free market to lift themselves out of poverty. Initially, poor countries have little to offer, but should take advantage of whatever they are able to…

  • Excerpt: Independence* Day

    This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 2 Why was France so interested in Cameroon? Why were colonies worth fighting bloody wars over? The entire reason European nations wanted colonies was to get raw materials from them for cheap, then force the colonies to buy goods manufactured by the colonizers. If you…

  • Excerpt: Are we measuring global poverty or intentionally underestimating it?

    This page is an except from Issue 1 / Chapter 1 Cameroon is blessed with so much natural wealth that it could afford to meet all of its citizens’ basic needs. Yet Cameroon is one of the poorest countries on the planet. The United Nations’ preferred way of measuring poverty is called the Multidimentional Poverty…