Deciding When to Let the Market Decide
The break-up was surprisingly easy after nineteen years. We’d met at my brother’s wedding when I was currently unattached, and I was hooked immediately. Even now I…
The break-up was surprisingly easy after nineteen years. We’d met at my brother’s wedding when I was currently unattached, and I was hooked immediately. Even now I…
A couple years ago at a conference a marketing professor from a local college lamented to me that his students were simply not getting it. What, I…
Why Men Earn More and What Women Can Do About. Warren Farrell. New York: AMACOM, 2005. Warren Farrell’s book Why Men Earn More and What Women…
Until relatively recently, most people hearing that someone had a “gig” would assume that person was a musician. Whether for a night, a week, or even as…
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities. Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. The crisis of the humanities…
Every second year, the first week of January is a time of change in US politics. Some senators and members of the House of Representatives leave national,…
The making of the modern market economy is often attributed to Adam Smith. Though free market theorists see the primary roots here, the view is not shared…
Does Eric Voegelin's philosophy provides an inter-disciplinary basis for a free economy, rooted in the priority of the human person; that human beings are endowed with inherent…
In Voegelin’s essay about industrial society, he explored how the American economy had adapted to ever-changing economic circumstances, with its technological productivity and rationalization of forms of…
In his 1960 essay, “Industrial Society in Search of Reason,” Voegelin described the features of industrial society as follows: 1) the worker was separated from his tools…
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. Mark Blyth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Political theorists have long made the connection between politics and emotion. Plato,…
Wealth of Persons: Economics with a Human Face. John McNerney. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2016. There is need of a deep and saving counsel, like a…
Who is afraid of the financial market? Obviously most of the political leaders around the world – and rightly, since the global economy has fallen into disarray;…
It surprises me as a newcomer to this circle that entrepreneurs have been apparently forced onto the defensive by an image of the entrepreneur whose characteristics come…
Time for Revolution. Antonio Negri with Matteo Mandarini, trans. London. Bloomsbury, 2003. Antonio Negri’s Time for Revolution consists of two shorter works, written twenty years apart,…