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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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Nov 11, 20226 min read
Veterans Day, and, Fight Authoritarianism, Again?
Credit: arsenypopel - stock.adobe.com
Soldier and USA flag on sunrise background .
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Nov 4, 20222 min read
Authoritarian vs Progressive Populism
The US is choosing in the mid-term election between Authoritarian Populism with an Illiberal Democracy twist as compared to Progressive...
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Sep 26, 202257 min read
Radical Move to Post-Liberalism
Review and MetaEcon Commentary on Rose, Matthew. A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right. Yale University Press, 2021.
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Aug 23, 202237 min read
God is a MetaEcon?
(Updated April 2024) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator,...
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Jul 30, 20224 min read
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, 202222 min read
Supreme Court Claims Eggs for Breakfast Were Actually Chicken
(Updated October, 2024). The Essence The issue of fertilized eggs and the stopping of progress of same being an "abortion" needs a...
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Apr 23, 202248 min read
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, 202229 min read
Globalization as Culture War
This particular Blog uses Dual Interest Theory (DIT; see What is Dual Interest Theory?) in Metaeconomics to put an economic frame to the...
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Feb 15, 202228 min read
Give Me Liberty, to Say and Do What?!
(Updated, May, 2023) “… what is not protected by the 1st Amendment is the knowing falsehood, the calculated lie (Lee Levine, 1st...
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Feb 5, 20226 min read
Too Much Inequality? Time to Move Toward Optimal Inequality?
(Updated November 2024) Krugman (2022) in the New York Times reminded me of what Adam Smith had to say about the matter of inequality,...
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Nov 14, 202119 min read
A Good That Is Common, and Build Back Better
The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet, completed 1857-1859
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Nov 14, 20212 min read
Why Liberalism (Actually It Did Not) Failed
and, How It Can be Revitalized With Metaeconomics (Updated October, 2022) Patrick Deneen, a political philosopher and theorist, Professor...
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Sep 14, 202170 min read
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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Feb 15, 202122 min read
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, 202111 min read
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, 202010 min read
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, 202017 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 202019 min read
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, 202025 min read
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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