The Radford Free Press – Page 75 – All life is problem solving.

Economics / primary knowledge, secondary knowledge, theory of the firm, uncertainty /

Notes On The Firm

April 19, 2017

When, for reasons too byzantine to recount here, I decided to re-engage with economics a couple of decades ago I did so through the prism of business. After all I had just finished a stint in banking and was thinking about the way in which the rise of digital technology would change the way in […]

Economics, Politics / health care reform, Paul Ryan, Republicans, tax reform, Trump /

Tax Reform – Maybe Not

April 7, 2017

I have a friend here who is an ardent Republican, It has been fun watching as he adapts to the reality of Trump, and is now a partisan cheerleader for someone who, a few months back, was anathema to him. Such is the power of tribal politics. In any case, not to depress him, I […]

Economics / capitalism, democracy, economic theory, plutocracy /

Reflections

April 7, 2017

It is easy to be partisan. It is easy to believe in sweeping utopian solutions. It is easy to delude yourself that what you think is what everyone thinks, or, perhaps, what they ought to think. This is why I recoil from anyone offering definitive answers to complex questions. The truth is never so easily teased […]

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