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Seeking Happiness Seems to be Part of System Justification

Posted on February 1, 2019 by greg

An economic system that rewards psychopathic personality traits has changed our ethics and our personalities – neoliberalism favors certain personality traits and penalizes others. Our society constantly proclaims that anyone can make it if they just try hard enough, all … Continue reading →

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Economic Failure Legitimizes Alternatives to the Status Quo

Posted on October 20, 2018 by greg

The Great Recession was a global economic failure that devastated world financial markets as well as the banking and real estate industries. This economic failure led to increases in home mortgage foreclosures and caused millions of people to lose their … Continue reading →

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The Significance of the Widening Socio-economic Gap

Posted on September 10, 2018 by greg

In the mature economies of the western world, the middle class, considered from Aristotle to de Tocqueville, the bulwark of democratic government has been losing out, capturing a declining share of total income growth. The opening of markets, since about … Continue reading →

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Populism: A Symptom of the Disease Weakening Democracy

Posted on August 10, 2018 by greg

In contemporary usage, “populism” is generally understood to mean political movements and individuals who channel widespread alienation and frustration by claiming to speak for “the people” against forces that are said to be destroying cherished ways of life. “The people” … Continue reading →

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The Rise of the Kleptocracy: America’s Security Threat

Posted on June 1, 2018 by greg

Milton Friedman’s neoliberal triumvirate of privatization, deregulation – free trade, and drastic cuts to government spending laid the groundwork for Reagan economic policies of deregulation that began in the 1980s. This, in turn, launched globalization which was supposed to undermine … Continue reading →

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Why Hillary Clinton Needs Elizabeth Warren

Posted on July 1, 2016 by greg

Nietzsche (1844-1900) rejected the power of reason, and the belief that science would automatically lead to progress. He claimed there was no objective fact about what has value in itself – culture consisted of beliefs developed to perpetuate a particular … Continue reading →

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