[OSList] Open Space Economics? Be Prepared to be Surprised!

[Brett Barndt]

People more or less believe because they have been carefully taught for a
few generations by the educational establishment and its institutions.
Plenty has been written about why that came to be.

There are a lot of interesting themes here to dissect. It will take some
time. He touches on physics, which was rejected by those promoting
monetarist notions because it challenges the over-simplified assumptions of
Neo-Liberalism that Greenspan more or less admitted failed in his Oct 23,
2008 congressional testimony. However, Minsky said many of these things a
long time ago. The question then is why was he not advanced and promoted
forward of monetarists in the "democratic" marketplace of ideas? Why are so
many of us now pillaged of much of our productive achievement this long
after Minsky?

Christopher Hollis book Two Nations: A Financial History of England sheds
some light on the machine of sophistry surrounding economic thought for now
about 300 yrs. It is a useful companion in any process of reading economics
from any author today.

Discourse analysis is required corollary to economic writing. There are too
many vested interests in the outcomes. And, in blocking innovation that
fundamentally challenges the status quo. And, too much influence of
funding, publishing, promotion, media, politician's planks, all influenced
by those vested interests. It is hard to say what ideas actually have
merit, since the money interests ultimately decide for "the Market".

One thing we do know, is these theories are failing 99% of the population.
Actually more when we look at all the 7B. And, ecology and life itself.


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Michael Herman
<michael at michaelherman.com>wrote:

> I share your concerns, Jeff, but found this piece to be mostly not about
> politics.  And where he comments on current views and policy, I was less
> bothered by what he was saying than by my tendency to agree in many cases.
> But mostly this is interesting and useful totally separate from his
> politics, I think.
>
>
> On Thursday, September 26, 2013, Jeff Aitken wrote:
>
>> thanks Michael!
>>
>> It's unfortunate that I have a lingering dislike for Mr. Gilder, who was
>> famous for awhile around 1981 when the Reagan administration rolled out its
>> economic agenda, and his work was considered one of its intellectual
>> pillars.
>>
>> Twas a long time ago, and no doubt the man remains a hard thinker and
>> clear writer, perhaps with more heart than I experienced back then.
>>
>> With that caveat, I'll dig into this when I have a chance. Thanks for
>> sharing.
>>
>> Jeff
>> San Francisco
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Michael Herman <
>> michael at michaelherman.com> wrote:
>>
>>>      Here's a long one, friends… But maybe an important one.
>>>
>>> What follows is an excerpt from a markets newsletter I've read for maybe
>>> 10 years by a financial expert and best-selling author Named John Mauldin.
>>>  He describes and then shares an article by a guy named George Gilder, Who
>>> seems to have been writing "important" books for at least a few decades.
>>>
>>
>
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>
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