I came upon this book because it shares a title with the workshop I recently attended by Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann. See https://www.skool.com/stevekeen/rebuilding-early-education-in-economics-regenerative-economics?p=c16f2fba I’m not sure if there’s a connection but this book has entirely the same viewpoint as Jennifer’s, even though she has a focus on secondary-school education. Fullerton aims at a wider audience, in a book that doesn’t offer solutions so much as frame the right questions - or rather it sets up an entirely different and appropriately-realistic attitude of mind. It address the problem that @Patrick Cunningham seems to have encountered recently with the UK Green Party. See https://www.skool.com/stevekeen/the-green-party-are-idealouges?p=4e83c3df Fullerman seems to be a classic case of the Prodigal Son, since he resigned from a top position at JP Morgan and spent at least a decade discovering all that was wrong with the world he had worked and prospered in for 20 years. I think his book is very relevant to the breadth of experience and interests that Skool members seem to have in looking for ways to reject and oppose the status quo that has led humanity to the brink. Might @Lucy Trinder especially like this book for its emphasis on holistic thinking? I especially like its insightful argument for something very innovative, suggesting an entirely new social institution based on recognising and claiming universally-shared ownership of the commons. Fullerton isn’t the source of that idea, but he makes a cracking good case for it. For me, that section alone justifies reading the book, because of the cascade of social and environmental justice that would likely result.

It’s a calumny on ostriches, who don’t bury their heads in the sand when danger approaches. But today’s world does seem to work like that in so many ways. Those in power refuse to see how the money system works, how the economy works, and how the planet’s atmosphere and oceans work. To that list, George Monbiot adds biology pathological to humans. See - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/04/global-pandemic-mink-farm-utah-farming-livestock Two questions; 1) is avoiding deadly pandemic essential to human life? 2) is mink fur essential to human life? Monbiot argues that the answers are currently ‘No’ and ‘Yes’ but in a sane world they should be ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Ostriches would be insane to not avoid obvious danger. So has global society become insane?

The good news is that I have finally worked out how to model resources as part of a pre budget process for doing national budgets. This is based on the MMT and Steve Keen insight about how money is created. The less good news is that I have come as far as a linguistic model, a canonical data model. It is many steps to creating the seeing rooms of cybersyn. Anyway take a look, I made some simplified podcasts and videos for the time-challenged! https://stephenhinton584706.substack.com/p/rethinking-the-national-budget-how?r=21tjc

This substack post asks if we can answer the "how to pay for it" question using Godley Tables and a dose of MMT. Take a look and see if you agree. See it as a first draft. https://open.substack.com/pub/stephenhinton584706/p/how-to-pay-for-the-future-a-case?r=21tjc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

There's an interesting piece on Substack titled "How writers are reacting to Substack’s AI transparency tools". See - https://on.substack.com/p/how-writers-are-reacting-to-substacks For once, I'm speechless. I have no idea how to react.