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Joel Magnusson
Joel Magnuson, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized economist specializing in non-orthodox approaches to political economy. He is currently a professor of economics in Portland, Oregon; a visiting fellow at the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England. He is an active member of an international research group based in Europe that is working toward new philosophical foundations for economic theory and practice. His book, Mindful Economics, demonstrates how the need for endless growth has intensified environmental destruction, resource depletion, instability, social and political inequality, and even global warming. He proposes democratic, community based economics as a key solution.
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