> I honestly do not care about the market model. It is irrelevant(1),
> what is relevant are the values a society respects or fails to
> respect.

i believe that is thinking along the right lines.
but maybe our models are hopelessly outdated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_Economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_ecology
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