1.3.8 Principio 9: Fomentar a acción positiva e restrinxir o comportamento especulativo e excesivamente extrovertido

How can an economy distinguish between income earned through Wall Street speculation and income earned from creating goods or raising children? Because GDP growth only considers the volume of money exchanged (or the total system throughflow in ENA words), and because it counts harmful activities like theft, cancer, as well as oil spills as positive changes, it is unable to discern between a healthy economy and a bubble. The alarming outcome of today is that the real-economy networks’ deteriorating state is concealed by a fleeting fog of speculative activity. A economía rexenerativa, pola súa banda, está moi preocupada polas actividades construtivas porque axudan a desenvolver o capital económico e as capacidades. De aí que as accións que aumenten a infraestrutura, a produción, a enerxía e a aprendizaxe sexan valoradas pola economía rexenerativa. Pretenden restrinxir dúas cousas: 1) a especulación excesiva, que produce burbullas de riqueza ficticia alimentadas maioritariamente polo frenesí; e 2) extracción excesiva, que produce necrose económica.