Josh Farley: "Money, Money, Money"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Show Summary:
On this episode we meet with ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Josh Farley.
Money. What is it? Where does it come from? How is it created? How is it tethered to our biophysical balance sheet? What is on the horizon with our monetary system? How might we create and use money differently in the future during a source and sink contained system? Josh Farley explains it all - and explains how the links between money, energy, and the economy will become more central in our lives.
Click here to listen to Josh and Nate's first conversation.
About Josh Farley:
Joshua Farley is an ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration at the University of Vermont. He is the President of the International Society for Ecological Economics.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.0 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.0 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the |
| 0:22.6 | bird's eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can |
| 0:28.1 | do about it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:32.9 | Joining me once again today is my friend and ecological economist Josh Farley of the University |
| 0:41.2 | of Vermont Department of Applied Economics and Community Development. |
| 0:46.5 | In our first conversation on this podcast, Josh and I talked about the past, present, |
| 0:51.2 | and future of human cooperation. |
| 0:55.3 | Josh has deep knowledge about many aspects of our coming cultural transition, and today |
| 1:00.2 | we talk about one of those, money. |
| 1:04.0 | Where it comes from, what is it? |
| 1:06.0 | How is it created? |
| 1:07.5 | How is it tethered to our biophysical balance sheet? What is on the horizon with our monetary system? |
| 1:13.6 | And how might we create and use money differently in the future during a source and sink-constrained |
| 1:20.6 | system? |
| 1:22.6 | The link between money, energy, and the economy is about to become a lot more central to all of our |
| 1:29.3 | lives. I hope you enjoy and learn from this educational discussion with my friend and colleague |
| 1:35.6 | Josh Farley on money. Hey, Josh. |
| 1:51.5 | Hey, hey, good to see you. |
| 1:53.0 | So, Josh, my old friend, do you realize that it will be 18 years coming up where I met you and started my PhD program at the University |
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