Originally aired on Pensive in 2016.

Doug Carmichael is a strategy consultant at the Institute for New Economic Thinking amongst many other things. Carmichael studied physics at Caltech, got a PhD from Berkeley in human development, a post doc of Harvard’s Center for Cognitive Studies and lived in Mexico City while studying at Eric Fromm’s Institute for psychoanalysis. He consulted the White House and ran the network for Al Gore’s Reinventing government. For the last ten years he has focused on the broad social science issues relevant to rethinking humanity’s relationship to nature. He also created the Stanford Strategy Studio and is most interested in the relationship between the humanities and economics.

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