In our last episode, Professor Robinson was reflecting on how to make capitalism great again…concluding…America must get its plow horse…too-long sidelined as a hobby horse…back into the field. Quite simply…Joan says…it’s about strengthening productivity of the American economy; it’s about weakening wealth-hoarding schemes…about delivering knock-out punches to fraud. This is the only route to […]
Read MoreModule 28 : America’s Health Belly Flop
Following Professor Robinson’s presentation at Great Saltiness, our team debriefs at a nearby café…featuring zombie-burgers…ahead of a trip downtown…for a showing of George Romero’s classic film … “Night of the Living Dead.” As they huddle…and munch…in a booth…in back…Grandpa asks a probing question of the two zombie economists. Is American capitalism living up to its […]
Read MoreModule 24 : Grandpa’s Ethics
On 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 MoreModule 23 : Here Comes Automation…Again
Its challenges have dogged the economy throughout the post-World War II era but in each decade the U.S. managed to adapt – to reinvent itself economically, even by absorbing some of automation’s darkest impacts. That is until now. Actually, the automation story began over two centuries ago in Great Britain shortly after the inking of […]
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