Tag Archives: Adam Smith

Rousseau and Freedom: A Renewed Social Contract

Posted on August 1, 2024 by greg

A new social contract is not about higher taxes, more redistribution, and a bigger welfare state. It is about fundamentally reordering and equalizing how opportunity and security are distributed across society. Continue reading →

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Postmodern Deconstruction of the Cruelty of Late Capitalism

Posted on September 15, 2022 by greg

Postmodernism is the idea that individuals have both the intelligence and the right to decide for themselves what truth is. In the past, truth was a clearly defined fact that was generally accepted by each generation. Postmodern individuals see the … Continue reading →

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Objective Reality: the Pervasive Atmosphere of Hostility of Neoliberal Narcissism

Posted on July 1, 2020 by greg

Powerful elites always have a justification for their obsessions. In the past emperors, kings, and aristocrats claimed they were God’s chosen. The plutocrats of the modern world have dispensed with God, but they have a philosophy that justifies in their … Continue reading →

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The Reawakening of the Ongoing Class Struggle for Economic Stability

Posted on June 20, 2020 by greg

Neoliberalism intensifies and extends itself by displacing competing socioeconomic forms that restrict it. This means that a through, nuanced, comprehension of capitalism is more important than ever for understanding neoliberal social life and psychology. Marx and Engel’s analysis of capitalism … Continue reading →

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Darwin’s Invisible Hand Narrative: A New Paradigm

Posted on April 10, 2018 by greg

Economists try to model human motivation in an attempt to understand how markets work. Traditional economic models assume that the satisfaction people take from consumption depends only on the absolute amount of it. Yet compelling evidence suggests that relative consumption … Continue reading →

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The Debate on the Science Behind Economic Choices

Posted on July 1, 2017 by greg

The choices you face in the ordinary business of your life – buying clothing, deciding what to eat, or seeking a job all involve considerations of cost, scarcity, and tradeoffs with other options – are economic decisions. The Enlightenment of … Continue reading →

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Doubt And Critical Thinking In Elections

Posted on May 1, 2017 by greg

Rene Descartes claimed reasoning is an ability that all people have, and this ability that we all have is exactly what we need in order to learn about the world. We don’t need a special upbringing, education or religion. Descartes … Continue reading →

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Potential as a Freedom

Posted on December 1, 2016 by greg

Life is an unstable equilibrium between agency and determinism. Human agency is a collective of systemic thinkers and doers creating conditions where individuals can transform the status quo. Causal determinism is the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent … Continue reading →

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Today’s Social Fantasy

Posted on November 15, 2016 by greg

A fantasy is something produced by the imagination that might possibly be accomplished, although the chances of its fulfillment are quite remote. Illusions, in contrast, are based on false beliefs, and it is their lack of fruition in the face … Continue reading →

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The New Parasitic Bureaucracy

Posted on October 15, 2016 by greg

The Occupy Wall Street movement was a protest against the oligarchy that is responsible for the increasing economic inequality between the rich and the rest of society. The ideology of neoliberalism drives the social agenda and economic goals of the … Continue reading →

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