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It shows that it's essentially impossible until now to develop a science of economics because we are sentient beings who anticipate and there is a problem of self-fulfilling prophesies.
Today I want to propose a strategy to save ocean life, and the solution has a lot to do with economics.
So we have five countries doing most of the fishing in the high seas and the economics are dependent on huge government subsidies, and for some countries, on human rights violations.
Now I actually think that these ideas will change the economics of deforestation.
Look, our species is trying to build AGI, motivated by curiosity and economics, but what sort of future society are we hoping for if we succeed?
The conventional wisdom in economics and the view in business has historically been that actually, there's a tradeoff between social performance and economic performance.
At the time, these words were earmarked and targeted against the British, but over the last 200 years, they've come to embody what many Westerners believe, that freedom is the most cherished value, and that the best systems of politics and economics have freedom embedded in them.
I've met with presidents, dissidents, policymakers, lawyers, teachers, doctors and the man on the street, and through these conversations, it's become clear to me that many people in the emerging markets believe that there's actually a split occurring between what people believe ideologically in terms of politics and economics in the West and that which people believe in the rest of the world.
The fact of the matter is that this has become a very poignant question because there is for the first time in a long time a real challenge to the Western ideological systems of politics and economics, and this is a system that is embodied by China.
It's not just in economics, but it's also in terms of living standards.
What this says is that for people like me who care about liberal democracy, is we've got to find a more sustainable way of ensuring that we have a sustainable form of democracy in a liberal way, and that has its roots in economics.
Instead of criticizing China for bad behavior, the West should be showing how it is that their own system of politics and economics is the superior one.
People who care and will pivot towards the model of politics and economics in a very rational way, to those models that will ensure that they can have better living standards in the shortest period of time.
They rank hundreds of nations worldwide according to 10 criteria that they believe add up to quality of life: health, economics, education, housing, you name it.
Conversely, valuable attributes that increase with age include experience, understanding of people and human relationships, ability to help other people without your own ego getting in the way, and interdisciplinary thinking about large databases, such as economics and comparative history, best left to scholars over the age of 60.
And Adam Smith, of course, the father of modern economics actually said many, many years ago, the invisible hand, which is, "If you continue to operate in your own self-interest you will do the best good for society."
Now sexuality is an incredibly powerful lens with which to study any society, because what happens in our intimate lives is reflected by forces on a bigger stage: in politics and economics, in religion and tradition, in gender and generations.
These are the economics of processing and communicating as they have evolved over a long period of time.
This, I would submit, is a sea change, a profound change in the economics of the world that we live in.
Once kids stopped working, the economics of parenting changed.
It's really rare that you don't have trade-offs between health and economics, or environment and economics.
And so here I am at TED, I suppose to tell that story, and I think it's appropriate to say the obvious that there's a symbiotic and intrinsic link between storytelling and community, between community and art, between community and science and technology, between community and economics.
The rules change all the time, but they always benefit them, and in this case, the trickle-down effect, which does not work in economics, works perfectly.
And this is why we need to put behind us the trickle-down policies that so dominate both political parties and embrace something I call middle-out economics.
Middle-out economics rejects the neoclassical economic idea that economies are efficient, linear, mechanistic, that they tend towards equilibrium and fairness, and instead embraces the 21st-century idea that economies are complex, adaptive, ecosystemic, that they tend away from equilibrium and toward inequality, that they're not efficient at all but are effective if well managed.
We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us, this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do.
The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off.
So here's an idea for a new kind of economics, a new kind of politics that I call new capitalism.
Today, we have trickle-down economics.
And the reason this picture's in here is I did this slide show a couple years ago at a big economics summit, and there was a fellow in the audience who came up to me.
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