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...moving Beyond Greed

"... humble the arrogance of ... self-love (self-interest), and bring it down to something which other (people, represented in the shared other-interest) 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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Nov 17, 2020
16 min

Metaeconomics: Tempering Excessive Greed

(Post updated May 2022). Instead of looking for an alternative to replace it (microeconomics), we should try to imagine an economic...

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Jul 30
4 min

Tempering Neoliberal Excess: The Case of Water Markets

Neoliberal ideology has framed a 3-4 decade long effort to turn water into a private property, removing it from the historical frame of...

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Jun 24
19 min

Supreme Court Claims Eggs for Breakfast Were Actually Chicken

One has to think a bit about the Byline on the image, provided by Bruce Luft. But, yes, it is about the matter of a fertilized egg...

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Apr 23
48 min

Do Progressives (and Democrats) Have Moral Values?

(In process, April 2022) Listening to conservatives (and Republicans) one would think not. And, from an economic frame of mind, does it...

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Apr 9
28 min

Globalization as Culture War

This particular Blog uses Dual Interest Theory (DIT) in Metaeconomics to put an economic frame to the story weaved in Brooks, David. ...

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Feb 15
28 min

Give Me Liberty, to Say and Do What?!

How is it that we have morphed into a country where people claim endless “rights” while fewer and fewer believe they have any...

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Feb 5
6 min

Too Much Inequality? Adam Smith On Income and Wealth Inequality

A recent piece by Krugman (2022) in the New York Times reminded me of what Adam Smith had to say about the matter of inequality, and,...

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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
25 min

Balancing Scroogism&Socialism

It is as though we "have been sent back in time—to the late 70s and early 80s (Reynolds, 2020)." (Updated March, 2022) Reynolds is...

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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 24, 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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