Mike Norman Economics

US President Donald Trump has managed to attract support for his "America First" isolationism not by dint of his own arguments, but because the US foreign-policy establishment abandoned its own values. After decades of thoughtless military interventionism, it is little wonder that Americans would seek an alternative.… A grownup speaks on semi-official channel. The voices of the grownups have been suppressed in the corporate media and only found expression in alternative media.One can be for...

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This article is a small interlude in my my discussion of post-Keynesian inflation theories. The first article was unfortunately theoretically negative - it discussed the reasoning behind the post-Keynesian rejection of mainstream inflation theories.  Bond Economics Inflation And Income Shares Brian Romanchuk

Evolution, the theory that has already proven itself for understanding the rest of life, is equally relevant for understanding the human condition. With understanding comes improvement. Thus, evolutionary theory can be used to improve the quality of human life in a practical sense.... HuffPostProof That Policies Informed by Evolution Can Succeed Where Other Perspectives Have Failed David Sloan Wilson | SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University and...

Teddy Atlas provides some terrific insight on what it takes to be a winner.

The winners get to write history, and the South Eastern Asian countries that the West bombed back to year zero were made into vassal states singing and praising the West for saving them from the "communists". But I wonder how much we in the West have been lied to as well? KV I'm sitting at the splendid building of the Singapore National Library, in a semi-dark room, microfilm inserted into a high-tech machine. I’m watching and then filming and photographing several old Malaysian...

The powers that be pump money into mainstream economics to make it look like there is no alternative. The role of government The left believes the government has a role to play in the economy beyond simply correcting “market failures.” Prominent leftist economists like Stephanie Kelton and Mariana Mazzucato, argue for a government role in economic equity and shared prosperity through policies like guaranteed public employment and investment in innovation. The government shouldn’t merely...

While the West is divided, with the US and the EU arguing with each other and suffering from internal crises, China and India are becoming world powers. What does it mean globally and locally? Should we expect any Asian country or Asia as a whole to become a new powerhouse? How to preserve security in the region and what Russia’s role in that could be? The world’s balance of power is slowly, but steadily moving towards Asia. While some countries like South Korea and Japan still depend on...

The front groups that have been funded for decades by billionaires Charles and David Koch, majority owners of the fossil fuels conglomerate, Koch Industries, are determined to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court because he has demonstrated a willingness to write decisions favorable to gutting regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. Whether Kavanaugh has a history of sexual assaults is irrelevant to that agenda. As recently as last evening, a dark money group that keeps its donors a...