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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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(Your shared Other-interest is in your favorite political frame,
and, Metaeconomics is neutral to that preference)
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Metaeconomics: Tempering Excessive Greed
(Post updated June 2024) Instead of looking for an alternative to replace it (microeconomics), we should try to imagine an economic...
Nov 17, 202022 min read
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The Assault on the "Deep State"
--- an assault which is not deeply good Preface: Political Science research --- truly scientific research --- supports the contention...
Mar 2129 min read
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Searching for the Scientific Foundation Under Project 2025
---finding cargo-cult science Throughout the world, a loose coalition of anti-state libertarians, religious nationalists, and supporters...
Mar 836 min read
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Political Capitalism vs Market Capitalism, and Market Capitalism Always Wins?
or, is the true winner a joint Market & Political Capitalism? Note: This post was inspired by the Podcast TAITC (The Answer is...
Jan 1620 min read
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Empathy or Not? Is Increasing the Profit the One and Only Social Responsibility of a CEO? Is it Decivilizing?
Recent execution styled shooting death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has restirred the conversation about the social responsibility of a...
Dec 16, 202410 min read
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Individuals and Identity in Economics
Review of Davis, John B. 2011. Individuals and Identity in Economics . New York: Cambridge University Press. Essence Starting at the end...
Oct 7, 202421 min read
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The Two Roads from Mont Pelerin
…the Hayek Road to a Humane Economy vs the Neoliberal Road to Serfdom (updated September 2024) Economics, it turns out, is just...
Apr 15, 202419 min read
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The Two Roads to Serfdom
…and, finding The Road Out of Serfdom. Metaeconomics points to the need to temper the excesses. (Updated September 2024) The Essence...
Apr 8, 202416 min read
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Adam Smith On Prudence
Seeking Own-interest was all about Prudence, not Maximizing Self-interest Review of Vigano, Eleonora. 2017. "Not Just an Inferior Virtue,...
Mar 1, 20249 min read
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An Economics that is Based in True Classical Liberalism? Toward a Humane Libertarianism
Review of McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen. (2019). Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World...
Jan 6, 20247 min read
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An Economics with Humans in It? Beyond Behavioralism
Review of “McCloskey, Deidre Nansen. (2022). Beyond Positivism, Behavioralism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics. Chicago: The...
Dec 18, 20235 min read
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An Economics with Ethics in It? Bettering Humanomics
Review of McCloskey, Deidre Nansen. (2021). Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science. Chicago: The University...
Dec 18, 20235 min read
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Blog Used to Have Images
Seems the Spaceship has gone completely over to the $ side of everything. Been lambasted with claims of need to pay for images I had in...
Dec 8, 20231 min read
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Taxation as Social Justice
Or, Taxation as Economic Efficiency? The Blog here today was stirred by an AIER Essay titled Taxation as Social Justice (Munger, Sept....
Sep 28, 202317 min read
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Trolley Problem, and, Sacrificing a Little Finger
… as well as sacrificing a bit to help earthquake and flood victims, and, well, how about not sacrificing so many American lives by...
Sep 18, 202318 min read
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An Economics that Makes Everyone Rich? Toward Leave Me Alone
Alternatively: Leave Me Alone So I Can Take and Keep Me Rich. (Updated November 2024) The recent book by McCloskey and Carden (2020)...
Sep 7, 20236 min read
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Transaction Costs and the Shared Interest
Dual Interest Theory (DIT) helps explain why TAITC (Updated June, 2024) The Michael Munger TAITC Podcast --- The Answer is Transaction...
Aug 7, 20236 min read
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Bringing Metaeconomics to Substack
As many of you know, the Substack site is the electronic version of the old Newsletter that was historically mailed out in paper form. ...
Jul 21, 20232 min read
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What Comes Next ala Adam Smith
The distortion of Adam Smith as supporting unfettered Markets and minimal Government produced the 1930s.
Apr 4, 20237 min read
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Free Markets Often Fail: Why?
This Blog Post is about making Metaeconomic sense of why the Free Market has failed over and over throughout recorded history. Soll...
Jan 27, 20234 min read
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