Concordian Economics, Vol. 2
Some Applications
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Oh, the Bancor
In this Chapter we will try to put some content into a word coined by . Not surprisingly, perhaps, we will find in it an extraordinarily rich content. Applied nationally, it will facilitate the application ....
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Politics and Economics
The road to perdition for the United States, the Last, Best Hope of Earth, is paved with the poverty of our current political discourse. The discourse is composed of politics without economics. And when economics...
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Project Financial Independence
anyone can only be built on the Financial Interdependence of everyone. Let us neglect long-term plans for the system as a whole for a while. Let us concentrate our attention on the most practical thing of a...
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Two Published and Two Unpublishable (?) Urban Plans
In this Chapter we are going to give a fast look at four urban plans: The outline of two such plans has already been published; two more plans offer such a futuristic vision for our cities and towns that their...
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Economics of Justice and Peace in the World
of justice. Peace follows justice, especially economic justice. As its primary function, the Bancor can—ought? must?—be used as an instrument of national and international peace. Let us briefly see how.
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Ethics in Concordian Economics
economics at three crucial stages, not surreptitiously in the background, but explicitly and theory and this theory lies at the very core of Concordian economic theory. Next stage: Concordian economic...
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A Peaceful March Toward Concordianism
A peaceful march toward Concordianism will accelerate its pace if we the intellectual strictures of two “defunct . Preeminent leaders of two schools of thought, although long gone, both still dominate and d...
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Whence Money
In this chapter, we will attempt to give an answer to a perennial question. Professor Melissa Lane (2016), the director of Princeton’s University Center for Human Values, is right (of course): “Rising levels ...
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Whence Poverty
In this Chapter we will examine whether through the lenses of interdependence we can spot a society in which the rich are collaborating with the poor on the creation of the common good. The existence of povert...
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Opening Our Minds to Concordian Economics
If we mention any topic in economics nowadays, we find lurking somewhere on its way. Either Concordian economics is capable of solving these crises or it is not worth the paper it is written on. To make the ...
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The Interdependence of Economic Rights and Responsibilities
In order to eliminate any possible doubt that Concordian economics might be a theoretical construction unable to sustain a close encounter with daily reality, we will focus a bit of our attention on a few key ...
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King Cash
A crude and crass expression of Concordian economics is its aspiration to see in everybody’s pockets. One might expect a unanimous agreement on this basic policy. But no. On the contrary, there is much oppos...
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Where-To Money
These are indeed perilous times. The worst can happen. In this chapter, we shall observe (i) where does money go in a Stock Market Crash, (ii) the state of unpreparedness of the economics profession and how to...
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Toward Economic, Ecological, and Human Interdependence
Deep problems of ecological insanity are menacing our very existence. To ignore them is more than shortsighted, it is suicidal, hence this chapter. In it we shall emphasize some positive effects that Concordia...
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The Moral Problem: The Free Rider Problem
This chapter might be titled “The Revenge of Morally.” With the exclusion from the social sciences operated and strictly enforced today, the discipline is left powerless to forbid minor infractions. Econ...
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From Four Rights to Four Policies
Those who know Concordian economics at times ask me, “Why is Concordian economics not a common topic of discussion yet?” There are many answers, many reasons. The last one I have found is this: I have not yet ...
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From the Logic of Mainstream Economics to the Logic of Concordian Economics
logic is the logic : as soon as a deadly flaw is discovered, a patch is constructed. So the problem is not resolved. The logical resolution of modern economic problems can be found in Concordian economic...
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The Economic Bubble and its Measurement
, the sight is restricted to forms of financial bubbles. In Concordian economics, instead, a bubble is defined as a separation of monetary values from values of real wealth in the national accounts. Hence, the...
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Somism: Beyond Individualism and Collectivism
Somism, a new word attempting to signify “men and women in the social context,” tries to discover some of the natural interrelationships that exist in sociology, economics, and politics. These interrelationshi...
