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We have an imperative, as never before, to change our ways. Climate change is presenting the entire human race with its greatest ever existential challenge. Like many I feel a growing sense of looming disaster.
List of contents
Prologue. List of Figures. Ten Learning Points about Economics. Five Axioms of Systems Thinking. THINKING. Preamble to Part 1. Be Careful What You Think (
Because Your Thoughts Run Your Life (Proverbs 4:23: ICB version)). 2. Models are Cool-There is no Getting Around It (
The Wise Doubt-Judge to Make the Complex Simple and not the Simple Complex). 3. Rational People are Irrational (
Nothing is Perfect-Excellence is Purposeful Progress through Learning).
TESTING. Preamble to Part 2. 4.
Knowing the Price but not the Value (
Some People are so Poor, All they have is Money-Big Sean (American rapper)). 5. Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff (
Anyone Who has Never Made a Mistake has Never Tried Anything New-Albert Einstein).
ACTING. Preamble to Part 3. 6. Gimme Money (
That's What I Want -The Beatles). 7. Is the Genie Already Out of the Bottle (
Emerging as an Increasing Number of Extreme Weather Events). Appendix: The Flow of Money (
Everything Must Come from Somewhere and Then go Somewhere-Wynne Godley). Glossary of Technical Economic Terms. Index. Praise.
About the author
David Blockley is an Emeritus Professor of Engineering at the University of Bristol, UK. After graduating he worked for the British Constructional Steelwork Association in London. In 1969 he moved to Bristol University. There he was head of the Department of Civil Engineering and Dean of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and President of the Institution of Structural Engineers. He was a Non-Executive Director of Bristol Water plc.
