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The Very Strange Nature of Corporate Ownership: An Alternative to the Rumpelstiltskin Model of Raising Funds

May 18, 2018 Homo Stupidus

In the past, and even today, the stock market has played an important financial role in the economy by enabling companies to access the large

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Comparative Advantage for Whom? The Rise of Corporate Tyranny

May 16, 2018 Homo Stupidus

The simple classical economic doctrine of comparative advantage – that countries should specialize in producing goods and providing services in which they have a comparative

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Free Trade Means Less Life and More Death: When the Free Market Becomes the Blind Market

April 20, 2018 Homo Stupidus

The widespread economic belief that the more we consume, the better things will be for everyone is true only for human beings – and, moreover,

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Aristotle’s Sillygism

March 28, 2018 Homo Stupidus

In all introductory courses on logic, students are taught the syllogism, a short logical argument of three lines that contains a major premise, a minor

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No to “Autarky”

March 8, 2018 Homo Stupidus

The name by which a person, place, thing, or practice is called is, of course, important. Many words express varying degrees of either admiration or

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The Myth of the Invisible Hand: Why We Need the Guiding Hand of Government

January 26, 2018 Homo Stupidus

The many zealous advocates of free-market policies, which can be summed up in the phrase, “Less government and more private enterprise in all domains of

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  • Act I: Philosophical Misadventures
  • Act II: Free-Market Folly: Why Economics is not a Science
  • Act III: The Glorious Miracle of Life
  • Act IV: Our Relationship with God
  • Act V: The Only Way Forward is the Way Back
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