Regrowth Not Degrowth

Getting the framing right for MMT

Apologies for not updating here on substack regularly, but the writing at T4GU (fundamental physics) and Ōhanga Pai (macroeconomics) continues. But alongside some life-work crises and discovering at age 55 that I am full spectrum autistic with massive masking cope (all my 50+ years I’ve thought it was other people who were weird, talk about need for a Bayesian update!)

On Ōhanga Pai I had a recent comment or two to make on Degrowthism, I think it is time, for the sake of better appeal to normies (who realistically we are going to have to carry, it cannot be avoided) to drop the inflammatory “degrowth” meme and rhetoric, and adopt the more realistic and pragmatic Regrowth narrative. Is there even such a narrative? Well, it’d be super easy to make one, just get Hickel and Raworth and everyone to rewrite all their books and papers replacing “degrowth” with “regrowth”. That’s even a recipe for easily doubling-up your publications yo’.

On T4GU I’ve been truing to get my act together to sort out the SM Clifford algebra structure. Not easy because of so many options. But confining oneself to Cl(3,1) east coast metric seems to be the way to go, chirality is I think more natural than in Cl(1,3) — west coast (this is itself quite fascinating). I’ll post progress on this once I’m done with the waffle of philosophy and ““rough research notes” and have something concrete in GA/STA mathematics.