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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 )
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Senator D. P. Moynihan … quoted in Robert Sobel’s review of Past Imperfect: History According to…
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From the Bloomberg L.P. Opinion Page: “How Coronavirus Is Shaking Up the Moral Universe”
Authers (2020) adds as subtitle to the headline: “The pandemic is putting profound philosophical questions to the test.” He goes on to...
Mar 31, 202018 min read
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Phishing and Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
… many problems come from the nature of the economic system itself. If business people behave in the purely selfish and self-serving way...
Feb 29, 20206 min read
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Viking Economics: Nordic Model or Not?
It’s no accident that the descendants of the Vikings designed economies with some of the same characteristics that governed their boats:...
Jan 16, 202019 min read
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Progressive Capitalism as an Oxymoron, or Not?
In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s regulatory “reforms,” which reduced the ability of government to curb the excesses of the market, were sold...
Oct 28, 20199 min read
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Shareholder Value is No Longer Everything ... Won't Appease the Socialists?
...headlines in New York Times by Gelles and Yaffe-Bellany (2019), and in the Wall Street Journal by The Editorial Board (2019) This...
Aug 20, 20195 min read
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Why Liberalism Failed
Liberalism has failed—not because it fell short, but because it was true to itself. It has failed because it has succeeded (Deneen,...
Aug 14, 201942 min read
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Too Much Emphasis on Profits? Rein In ‘Sociopaths’ in the (Corporate and Government) Boardroom?
Sorkin (2019) points to a Jamie Gamble, former partner at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a lawyer with wide and deep...
Jul 29, 20193 min read
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America’s Nationalist Awakening and, Nationalism Doesn’t Fit the American Nation
A recent article in the New York Times points to what appears to be a Nationalism with a Fascist twist https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10...
Jul 21, 201910 min read
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Income and Wealth Inequality as a Public Health Problem?
(Updated April 2024) …from a recent book by Keith Payne, “The Broken Ladder…” ... focusing on the continuing trend to ever more...
May 10, 201914 min read
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The $70,000-a-Year Minimum Wage
A small Seattle company shows that capitalism can have a heart (Kristoff, 2019).” CEO pay in the US is going out of site, often upward of...
May 2, 20196 min read
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Apr 30, 20191 min read
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Scoop: Dems Plan to Teach 2020 Candidates How to Talk to a Trump Voter
Metaeconomics does not favor either the Right-Isle or Left-Isle, Red or Blue States, but it does help form substantive questions for both...
Apr 26, 20193 min read
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"Hey, Democrats, Give Markets a Chance"
Given revealed preferences in recent years coming out of Congress, the Administrative Branch, and the Supreme Court, the even more...
Apr 23, 201911 min read
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"Enemies of the Economic Enlightenment"
"Elizabeth Warren and Others Seek Corporate ‘reforms’ That Resemble Medieval Royal Charters" Gramm and Solon (2019) claim that a number...
Apr 23, 20195 min read
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Empathy, or Not, in the News
Metaeconomics points to the human need for balance in Ego&Empathy, Self&Other-interest, as Adam Smith, the first economist, tried to...
Apr 12, 20195 min read
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Toward a Low-Carbon Economy, Or Not, an Electoral Time Bomb?
As Pinker (2018) argues, we face the potential for the most dramatic Tragedy of the Commons (really, a Tragedy of the Open Access; see...
Feb 26, 201911 min read
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Water Markets, or Not?
Water is generally managed as a Common Property, especially relating to the hydrologic system that produces precipitation, but also the...
Feb 26, 20192 min read
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Empathy Conservation: What Motivates Conservation and Sustainability?
Over 4-decades of empirical research on what drives and otherwise motivates farmers to practice soil and water conservation points to the...
Feb 26, 20193 min read
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Atmosphere Overloaded with Carbon Gases, Leading to Climate Change? Who Owns That Capacity?
The capacity of the atmosphere to hold and process more greenhouse gases (carbon, methane, several others) has been exceeded. The result...
Feb 26, 20198 min read
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Satisfactory Tomatoes, and Not So Hard Times
An infamous book by the title "Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times" (Hightower, 1972) pointed to how industrial food just did not taste very good,...
Feb 26, 20192 min read
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