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...
Blog on Metaeconomics
...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…
Blog is Apolitical
(Your shared Other-interest is in your favorite political frame,
and, Metaeconomics is neutral to that preference)
Search
- 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...
195 views1 comment
- 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. ...
34 views0 comments
- 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...
413 views0 comments
- 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,...
937 views1 comment
- Nov 14, 2021
- 19 min
A Good That Is Common, and Build Back Better
The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet, completed 1857-1859
41 views0 comments
- 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...
49 views0 comments
- 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. ...
107 views0 comments
- 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...
31 views0 comments
- 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...
49 views1 comment
- 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...
64 views0 comments
- 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...
55 views0 comments
- 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"...
50 views0 comments
- 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 ...
24 views0 comments
- 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,...
88 views0 comments
- 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...
108 views0 comments
- 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...
22 views0 comments
- 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...
39 views1 comment
- 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
27 views0 comments
- 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...
50 views0 comments