Thursday, January 26, 2012

Slow motion train wreck, part 23: fish stock destruction

We note in The Economics Anti-Textbook how the textbooks downplay the failure to deal with the plundering of the oceans.  This report from the great Center for Public Integrity on the slaughter of jack mackerel in the south Pacific sketches out the consequences of "decades of unchecked global fishing pushed by geopolitical rivalry, greed, corruption, mismanagement and public indifference".


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  1. NellJanuary 31, 2012 at 10:47 AM

    Hi - came here via Naked Capitalism. Nice blog. Thought you might like to put a link to Steve Keen's blog. He's a Professor over in Australia who is highly critical of neo-classical assumptions about macro-economics
    http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2012/01/28/economics-in-the-age-of-deleveraging/

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  2. AntiTexterJanuary 31, 2012 at 5:35 PM

    Good idea! I've added the link. (Incidentally, I met Steve on a visit to Australia a few years ago.)
    RH

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