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Abracadabra …... or, the Art of Promoting Sustainability !

Abracadabra …... or, the Art of Promoting Sustainability ! GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprasadrao@hotmail.com gprao64.blogspot.com gprasadrao.blogspot.com Disclaimer : …..so I proclaim, and so shall the world be ! 1 Click here to browse or download the entire pdf manuscript Introduction If the Nominal paradigm leverages, on one hand, technology and capital-owning investors, with political coordination of the middle-class pool of labor, to pursue a growth-based economy, the same is obtained at the price of growing an inequitable, per-capita society, generating diffused SESH externalities and exploiting the Commons globally. Such externalities are the outcome of market-coordinated flow of nominal capital as part of a globalization of nominal economic activity across competing nations. The political imperative to perpetually obtain employment opportunities, and economic growth, induces governments to out-compete each other in accommodating externalit...

Fax the Corporate Tax …… Avert Regulatory-, Social- and Fiscal Capture ! (Psst: Dangereux !)

Fax the Corporate Tax …… Avert Regulatory-, Social- and Fiscal Capture ! (Psst: Dangereux !) GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprasadrao@hotmail.com gprasadrao.blogspot.com gprao64.blogspot.com Disclaimer: Dangereux ! Click here for the pdf Introduction Macro- and Regulatory Economics are not exactly close cousins. One dwells on the operation and administration of entire economies by designing optimal fiscal and monetary policies that foster a larger, globally-competitive, nominal economic paradigm; the other seeks to contain the concentrated and diffused social, environmental, safety and health externalities caused by real-immeserizing, profit-seeking firms in globalized nominal capital markets while ensuring a low-cost and efficient pathway for businesses to achie ve long-run sustainability. And though there seems hardly an overlap, it is the stimulation of the nominal economic paradigm by means of unbalanced fiscal and monetary policies that engen...

The ‘Alt-Kuznets’ returns the Global Nominal Economic Paradigm to Sanity

The ‘Alt-Kuznets’ returns the Global Nominal Economic Paradigm to Sanity GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprasadrao@hotmail.com gprasadrao.blogspot.com gprao64.blogspot.com Rather read the entire proposal in pdf?  The Rao Alt-Kuznets   The Nominal politico-economic paradigm that governs most all nations around the world engenders many-an-externality upon the global society. These externalities extend from social discrimination, and ESH excesses, to economic inequity, and interact in ways that turn the society riskier for all its mem bers. The advent of trade and globalization has expanded the competitive domain of the Nominal paradigm to an extent nations and precincts permit various temporally-diffused and spatially-distributed externalities in the Commons and the Public to attract foreign capital, increment employment, and expand economic activity. Ho wever, those externalities do not attract the immediate cognizance of Nominal Capitalists fo...

A Bonded River Basin? The Cauvery Colavery: A River Basin Cause Bond !

A Bonded River Basin? The Cauvery Colavery: A River Basin Cause Bond ! Ganga Prasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprasadrao@hotmail.com http://gprasadrao.blogspot.com/ http://gprao64.blogspot.com/ Evernote: gprao Disclaimer This manuscript applies elements of FV-Finance to solve an inter-jurisdictional, inter-temporal, socio-economic and engineering optimization-cum-compensation problem applicable to a widespread natural resource – inter-jurisdictional river basins. The proposed solution – that of a ‘Real’ Cause Bond supplemented by an Environmental-Hydrologic-Engineering Cell, and a Socio-Economic Resolution Cell, SERC, built around an FV-PV Bond Gold Collateral, leans on various financial markets in both PV and FV contexts. Since FV-Finance is necessarily subjective, and open to alternative designs & interpretations, the reader is cautioned regarding the various assertions in the manuscript. The author, while asserting all rights to the manuscript, mak...

Rationalization of the Work Week - a Credible Climate Change Policy

Rationalization of the Work Week - a Credible Climate Change Policy GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprao64.blogspot.com; gprasadrao.blogspot.com gprasadrao@hotmail.com Evernote: gprao Click here for a PDF of this blogpost Introduction The global Nominal economy, despite all the hype about Green Energy combating Climate Change, continues to chug away toward a climate disaster, taking little note of the expanding consumption of carbon-intensive fossil fuel and mineral resources, and it's implications for the sustainability of human society and the animal world in the generations and decades ahead. With nations of the world unabashedly adopting the emissions-intensive, nominal per-capita paradigm of consumption-based growth, and capital markets continuing to support expansion of primary fossil-fuel exploration over responsible recycling, the likelihood of interrupting the nearly unbroken, 100 year record of rising CO2 ambient concentrations seems decide...