The Meaning Economy: What Does it Mean?
For most of modern history, people worked to survive. If they were lucky, they worked to get ahead. In recent decades, the promise of capitalism—at least in…
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The Business of Less
If you want to understand how the modern economy works, forget supply and demand. Forget competition, efficiency, or the invisible hand. The real engine of capitalism—the thing…
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A System Worth Its Salt: Economic Justice Meets Solidarity Economies
We are a species with a peculiar gift for dreaming. For centuries, we have imagined utopias, built castles in the air, and scribbled blueprints for worlds where…
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“The New Industrial State” by John Kenneth Galbraith – a review
Few economists have wielded prose as deftly as John Kenneth Galbraith, whose writing—sharp, erudite, and tinged with dry wit—made macroeconomics palatable for the lay reader. In The…
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The Paradox of Need and Opportunity: Why Time Banking Struggles to Reach Those Who Need It Most
The idea of time banking should, in theory, be a lifeline for the economically disadvantaged. It provides a way for people to exchange skills and services without…
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Exploring the Rise of Techno-feudalism and the Cloudalists by Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister and prolific economist, has been vocal about the emergence of a new ruling class he terms “Cloudalists,” who preside over…
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The Coming Reckoning: Creativity, Complacency, and Collapse
In parts of the world where every meal must be earned through ingenuity, where a broken appliance isn’t replaced but repurposed, and where money is scarce but…
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The Art of Holding Fast
It is a curious thing, this modern habit of drifting. Men and women float through their days like autumn leaves upon a river, content to be carried…
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“The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It” by Will Storr – a review
Will Storr’s The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It is an incisive, often unsettling, look at one of the most fundamental forces shaping…
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Time Banking Apathy
For more than three decades, time banking has floated on the fringes of economic innovation; a well-intentioned, intellectually rigorous idea championed by the likes of Edgar Cahn…