The Economist Has No Clothes: Scientific American (Apr 08) Discover why it's impossible to solve global environmental problems with existing economic theory. Both these pieces are GREAT!!! Read them both!!! The Economist Has No Clothes Unscientific assumptions in economic theory are undermining efforts to solve environmental problems http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-economist-has-no-clothes ------------- Brother, Can You Spare Me a Planet? (Extended version) http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=brother-can-you-spare-me-a-planet Mainstream Economics and the Environmental Crisis ------------ A discussion group may be found here http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/econEnvironment