Growth | Rethinking Prosperity

Damn Almonds

Author: Spencer RogersOn: Apr 16Categories: Undergraduate Post No Comments

By Spencer Rogers | Surf, sun, and celebrities – what doesn’t California have to offer? Last week California Governor Jerry Brown’s executive order imposing his state’s first ever mandatory water restrictions made the answer inescapably clear:...

Seattle’s Economy is Booming, But at What Cost?

Author: KateOn: Mar 24Categories: Undergraduate Post 1 Comment

Seattle’s Economy is Booming, But at What Cost?

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Seattle’s economy is booming, and it is one of the fastest growing cities in America. But at what cost? Despite Seattle’s progressive reputation, the city’s rising inequality, rapid gentrification, and disintegrating middle class are troublesome...

Lunch and a Lecture with John de Graaf

Author: KateOn: Mar 03Categories: Events No Comments

John de Graaf speaks at a luncheon for Rethinking Prosperity on Feb 25 2015

Lunch and a Lecture with John de Graaf

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2/25: John de Graaf spoke at a University of Washington luncheon on his experience as an advisor to the government of Bhutan, Gross National Happiness and other international indices of well-being and happiness, the issues inherent in using Gross Domestic...

Growth Doesn’t Mean Jobs

Author: KateOn: Nov 24Categories: Undergraduate Post No Comments

Growth Doesn’t Mean Jobs

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Kate Vavrousek The World Economic Forum has identified persistent jobless growth as one of its 10 upcoming global trends in 2015. “Persistent Jobless Growth” typically happens when countries increase

The Looming Paradox Nobody Wants to Address

Author: Guest ContributorOn: Jun 10Categories: Undergraduate Post No Comments

The Looming Paradox Nobody Wants to Address

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-Max Grinberg In this day and age you can look at our current economic system in two different ways. You can either choose to ignore climate change, the collapse in biodiversity, or the exponential

Growth and the GDP? Lets Change Our Perspective

Author: shin1505On: Jun 03Categories: Undergraduate Post No Comments

Shanice Hrouda For those of you following the news, you may have heard of the whopping US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decrease last quarter, estimated to be a contraction of 1%. Now 1% may not seem like

Let’s Talk About Growth

Author: Guest ContributorOn: May 30Categories: Undergraduate Post No Comments

Kaleigh B “Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions of the people of Egypt filled one cubic metre. Let us propose that these possessions grew by 4.5% a year. How big would that stash

Viability of the Middle Ground Between Hobbyist and Star

Author: koobeenyOn: Apr 15Categories: Undergraduate Post 3 Comments

David Cubine Talk of careers and whether or not a desired career is a viable option immediately brought to mind an article that Oh, Sleeper guitarist Shane Blay wrote in 2010 about the financial realities

Growth: Our New God

Author: skeptykalOn: Apr 15Categories: Undergraduate Post 2 Comments

We are constantly reminded that we are living in a dramatically polarized time in our history. Gerrymandering, media echo chambers, and the radical regulatory reductions in campaign finance laws have produced

Environmental Protection Trending Upward While Economic Growth Slides

Author: Guest ContributorOn: Apr 07Categories: Undergraduate Post No Comments

Gallup recently released the results of a telephone survey that asked a random sample of American residents whether “Protection of the environment should be given priority, even at the risk of curbing