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Engineering Values and Virtue

The engineer’s job is to make things that work. This can be quite complicated, and it requires both education and practice in certain modes of thinking. It requires a design, a model, testing and measurement of that model, then usually some constraints related to costs. Patience, humility, and a certain level of creativity are all…

Deep Meaning of Politics

If we concede that world systems consist of people (as well as other things in nature), we have to acknowledge that politics, and politicians, are here to stay.

Aren’t We All Rentiers?

When we own capital, and then charge people to use it, but don’t give it to them, we become rentiers, to use the economic term invented by David Ricardo

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