David Brin: The Ultimate Answer to “Government is Useless”
Does government-funded science play a role in stimulating innovation?
David Brin
Browsing: Commentary
How to Pay for Universal Basic Income
Universal income can come from universal assets
James K. Boyce, Peter Barnes
The Trump Tax Cut versus Universal Basic Income
UBI solves the fundamental problem of modern capitalism, lack of demand
Tom Streithorst
Why Mainstream Economists Are Responsible for Electing Donald Trump
Mainstream economists, globalization, and Trump
David F. Ruccio
Why Laissez-Faire Lovers Are the Real Anti-Capitalists
Time to resurrect an old idea: economic rent
Dustin Mineau
Why Unrest and Political Violence Is Predicted to Peak in the 2020s
Entering the Age of Instability after Trump.
Peter Turchin
The Economy’s Greatest Illness: The Rise of Unproductive Finance
How financial markets no longer support business, and thus, economic growth
Rana Foroohar
Orthodox Economics Is Empirically Invalid and Theoretically Flawed. Bring on Complexity Economics.
Both economists and policy makers had been lulled into a sense of false security
Alan Kirman
Why Behavioral Economics Is Really Marketing Science
Ironically, the discipline of marketing was started by economists!
Philip Kotler
No One Knows Why Trump Is Winning. Here’s What Cognitive Science Says.
The cognitive linguistic psychology behind Trump’s success
George Lakoff
Behavioral Economics Doesn’t Understand Happiness
More of everything, less choices or outwitting our brains?
Terry Burnham
12 Short Steps to Retell the Story of Economics
It’s time for a different economic narrative
Jag Bhalla
Paul Krugman and David Brooks. The Language Prison That Traps Liberals and Conservatives
How narratives influence our actions
David Sloan Wilson
Why Radical Libertarians Are the New Communists
A toxic strand of a political ideology
Nick Hanauer, Eric Liu
Why Neoclassical and Behavioral Economics Doesn’t Make Sense Without Darwin
Back to basics
Terry Burnham
