Things I am Thinking About –I Want It, I Need It Something I am thinking about is, how do we find the place where needs and wants meet. Traditional economists believe we have infinite wants, but that we have finite needs. Maslow talks about the hierarchy of needs, which blurs the line between genuine physical […]
Category: Economics
Thoughts on macro or micro, or economics as a whole.
Three Days to Bastille Day, What’s Changed?
Three Days to Bastille Day, What’s Changed? Three Days to Bastille Day and one has to wonder, what has changed? Well, there is far greater access to education, to health services, to communication, to transport, to the possibilities of self-enrichment and the possibility of equitable employment and opportunity regardless of gender, race or location. Technology […]
Lazy Right Punishes Left
Lazy Right Punishes Left Are you definitely right-handed? I am not. One of the ultimate examples of the laziness of the industrial system is the punishment of left-handed people. I spent the better part of my first seven years on this planet at the occupational therapist, and received ongoing attacks from a concerned mother to […]
The System Isn’t Broken
The System Isn’t Broken What if the system isn’t broken, what if it’s the wrong system? What if the industrial revolution is over? What if the system we require has absolutely nothing to do with the Keynesian model, an industrialist’s model of economics? Stephen Covey used to refer to having the wrong map. What if […]
Should I Invest in Water or Palladium?
Should I Invest in Water or Palladium? Okay, silly question, but it raises the issue of value. If you have just crawled through the desert without water for the past 24hrs, what will you value the most? That is a rhetorical question, the obvious answer is water. But what if you were the […]