Look carefully at the expression on Francis Bacon’s face. He was a consummate Type II. I remain spellbound by Bacon’s expression, placed there by Henry Weekes, his sculptor. Weekes’ masterpiece is tucked away in the Trinity College Chapel at Cambridge University. What was the sculptor attempting in his depiction of Bacon? Why does Bacon’s message […]
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Really? Only one or the other? Just TWO choices, both extreme? Yup. Extreme ideologues on either side agree; there’s no middle. Just laissez-faire on one far-side and Karl Marx-style socialism on the other. To the contrary, at www.capitalismincrisis.org we spell out clearly how a vital middle is hiding in plain sight. It’s a middle just […]
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Four more years for President Trump? It may happen. But, how come? Well, his base loves him. Republican politicians fear him. Trump’s fans cheer when he sticks his finger in the collective eye of their perceived enemy: moderate and liberal America. Ironically, Trump’s agenda flies in the face of what we should be doing to […]
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Is it possible for Americans to exit the debilitating culture wars? Yes, but the path toward healing runs through respect for one-another in public places such as the Internet. These places, city council hearings and Congressional inquiries included, are how we “meet in the middle” to form public policy governing all citizens, regardless of belief. […]
Read MoreOn the horizon…our challenge is to reclaim…not just economic principles associated with Adam Smith…but the moral spirit associated with him…as well. Actually…Smith’s economics looked quite different from what…typically…the public expects of economists…today. He was a moral philosopher…whose principal ambition was to ask and answer questions about so-called “right action.” What should individuals and families do? […]
Read MoreAdam…next addresses his zombie colleagues…Jeremy and Joan…as the three-some winds up its visit to the thought-provoking public library in the Great Salty City. However, little could Smith know…during the break…Robinson…on the spot…excoriated a roomful of liberal political operatives…..
Read MoreAs the last episode was concluding, Adam Smith was flipping his wig…after being thrown out of the Trump White House…then sucked out of his Audi…through the moon roof. What else could go wrong?
Read MoreDoctrinaire capitalism is coming to crisis via increasing disconnects between pursuit of self-interest and realization of the common good. Moral philosopher Adam Smith assumed no leakages out of productive capital, into nonproductive uses; assumed no short-term oriented schemes in which plow horses are turned into hobby horses, figuratively, with pseudo-capitalists taking the money, then running.
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