Sacred Economics is Giving to Live
This is a good analysis. It is good to go back to the basics of economics and that we have created the scarcity and the commodities are stuff. In truth the materials things doesn’t bring us happiness and the planet cannot sustain our material wants.
We have to see the planet in a new way,… Continue reading
Caught in the Web of Social Disintegration
I wrote this short paper and sent it to Bill Emmott the Editor of the Economist back in the early 1990’s. At the time I chose to experiment with a new style of writing essays that more flowed then was structured. It was actually a form of poetry within an essay process that reflected the… Continue reading
Is the Fiscal Cliff the End or the Beginning of Something New?
The US and global economy in my view can no longer continue with notions of economic growth. We live on a finite planet and it cannot be sustained. It is time now to look at new ways to live, work and play. In my view the party is over for the few… Continue reading
The Political Philosophy of Division Rings the Bells of Truth
A person commented on my blog tonight relating to Adam Smith and Moral Philosophy and informed me that Ayn Rand was the Objective philosophical inspiration for the Conservative Party in the United States.
I felt moved tonight to write from my own heart a poem about the philosophical divisions that divide politics in order to… Continue reading
US Republicans Awaken! Economist Adam Smith Was A Moral Philospher
After the election of Obama I heard some commentary which suggested the Republican agenda had been rejected by the majority of voters. It was suggested that they had not kept pace with changing demographics.
The Republican conservative perspective has traditionally been framed as an adherence to the free market economics extracted from the philosophy of… Continue reading
Global Financial Crisis Root Problem Not a Failure of Regulation but Ethics
The issue of corruption and profiteering where the ends justify the means creates global instability in my view. Through our systems we encourage competition and the mindset is to close the deal. Ethics, values and sociology are not taught in business schools, so many graduate without a deep understanding of the… Continue reading