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...moving Beyond Greed

"... humble the arrogance of ... self-love (self-interest), and bring it down to something which other (people) can go along with"

(Smith, Adam, 1759/1790, Theory of Moral Sentiments, loc 1714-1727, digireads.com )

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts."

Senator D. P. Moynihan … quoted in Robert Sobel’s review of Past Imperfect: History According to…

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(Your shared Other-interest is in your favorite political frame,

and, Metaeconomics is neutral to that preference)

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Nov 17, 2020
4 min

Metaeconomics: Tempering Excessive Greed

Main theme: "… greed needs to be tempered, balanced, and perhaps bounded with empathy-based ethics (p. 21)" For Endorsements of the...

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Nov 14, 2021
19 min

A Good That Is Common, and Build Back Better

The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet, completed 1857-1859

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Nov 14, 2021
1 min

Why Liberalism (Actually It Did Not) Failed

and, How It Can be Revitalized With Metaeconomics Patrick Deneen, a political philosopher and theorist, Professor of Political Science at...

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Sep 14, 2021
70 min

Synthesizing Classical Liberalism and Socialism to Save Capitalism?

… toward a new (Meta)economic narrative that works for everyone Note: The cartoon image puts the Me on the Right and the Us on the Left. ...

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Jun 27, 2021
6 min

Last Best Hope for America: A Metaeconomic Narrative

Packer (2021) points to how we now have four Americas --- with two especially prominent tribes as we will see --- huge splits between and...

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Feb 15, 2021
22 min

Is it the Time for Empathy Politics? Nudging the US to a Multiparty Political System

… Split the “The Party” off from the GOP on the way to Empathy Politics Note: New format here. A brief “Essence of the Story” is...

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Jan 6, 2021
11 min

Fascism in America: Learn from the 1930s Experience in the Nordic Countries

Fascist styled framing --- lies, distortion, conspiracy, propaganda, in this case false claims about a stolen election --- stirs an...

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Dec 29, 2020
10 min

Reagan Revolution: Myth, Fantasy, and Zombies

Reagan weaving myths, creating a Fantasyland filled with Zombie Economic Ideas. Image from Nagourney (2020), who credits it to the Los...

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Dec 8, 2020
17 min

400,000+ Deaths from COVID: Government VS Market Thinking Caused It

(updated 01/27/21)…thousands needlessly died because of the "VS" thinking: How fix it? Start a "Mask It or Casket, and Save Grandma"...

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Dec 5, 2020
5 min

Journalists (and Academics) Did Not Do Enough

… and Metaeconomics gives an analytical system to help understand the point… So, the US --- starting back in about 2015 --- almost went ...

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Nov 25, 2020
19 min

Need Contributive Justice --- Respect Different Kinds of Smart

A Metaeconomics guide to moving beyond the Tyranny of Merit and the Culture of Cruelty, toward respecting the different kinds of smart,...

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Nov 6, 2020
29 min

Toward Better Balance in Scroogism&Socialism

... formerly titled: Now that the Election is Over. Have edited it a bit, toward framing the next few years as needing to focus on...

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Oct 29, 2020
11 min

Down the Rabbit Hole to Economic Fantasyland

Metaeconomics clarifies that focusing an economy on ego-based self-interest ensures destruction of capitalism, and, the political system...

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Oct 25, 2020
8 min

Economic Narrative Finally Changing for the Better?

…shifted the way both parties talk about trade, immigration, and deficits Image: An overlook of the South Side (former steel industry...

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Oct 21, 2020
6 min

Libertarian Economists Running in Herds

Commuters at the World Trade Center hub in New York in March. Credit...Mark Lennihan/Associated Press

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Sep 17, 2020
12 min

Right’s Economic (Scroogist) Victory: It Has All Gone Too Far

Setting the stage for the story in this Blog, from Andersen (2020): Even Richard Posner, the pioneering conservative scholar and senior...

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Sep 5, 2020
7 min

I don’t get it. What was in it for them?

Why most of us do get it --- for the shared other-interest

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Sep 1, 2020
31 min

Want to Stop the Protests? Restore the American Dream

Or, Tired Old Narrative(s) is Fueling the Protests: Change It! From Pietsch (2020): On Saturday night, a caravan of supporters … traveled...

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