http://blogs.haverford.edu/goinggreen/2012/09/04/reflections-2/ Just another News.haverford.edu weblog Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.haverford.edu/goinggreen/2012/09/04/reflections-2/#comment-1036 Frank Popper Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:48:14 +0000 http://blogs.haverford.edu/goinggreen/?p=895#comment-1036 Forgot. Please say hello to Helen White for me.
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]]> http://blogs.haverford.edu/goinggreen/2012/09/04/reflections-2/#comment-1035 Frank Popper Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:34:20 +0000 http://blogs.haverford.edu/goinggreen/?p=895#comment-1035 Dear Mr. Robinson,
I’m a Haverford graduate, a city planner, and I and my wife Deborah Popper (BMC ’69), who’s a geographer at CUNY and Princeton, have done a lot of work on this overall subject. We ground it in depopulating large rural areas like the Great Plains or central Appalachia and shrinking large and mid-sized cities like Detroit or Camden, NJ. Our sense is that the economic theory of degrowth is struggling to get born, hence the hit-or-miss quality in Montreal. The institutional inertia of standard neoliberal Bernanke-style economics easily overrides the Great Recession and nasty climate-change signs, events that would embarrass a saner profession.
I’d be delighted to talk to you. If you wish, you can get a lot of our writing on my Rutgers website, policy.rutgers.edu/faculty. Best wishes from Deborah and me,
Frank Popper, ’65
fpopper@rutgers.edu, fpopper@princeton.edu
848-932-2790

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