I am not an economist, but lots of real economists are trying to scare me into thinking that the dollar is doomed, and the exploding deficit is responsible. What does this mean for me?
Tag Archives: David Graeber
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
Scarcity and Abundance
Everybody is talking about scarcity vs. abundance — the key to the whole discussion is not economics, but politics, and asking the right questions.
Wealth Creation: Does it Matter Where it Comes From?
Rent-seeking, in economic thought, seems to be critical to capitalism’s survival … but so is labor! Both are necessary to achieve the abundance we all seek …
Mutual Aid: From Kropotkin to Graeber
Two seminal anarchist thinkers contributed to the development, over the last 200 years of that strand of political and social philosophy in ways rivaled only by Karl Marx …
Warp and Woof 