The Synthesis Economy

In recent decades, we have been led to believe that the capitalist economy is the best and even the only viable option, as encapsulated in TINA (There Is No Alternative). The main goal of this chapter is to demonstrate that TINA is nothing more than window dressing,...

Can Economics Help?

…that’s a large part of what economics is – people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven’t just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in...

Revolution Or Evolution?

The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark Throughout history, those who wanted to make a change would usually focus on overthrowing the existing system and smashing the...

Can Capitalism Be Saved?

The pressing question now is whether or not the system has passed the point of no return – in other words, whether it can still be repaired and saved. Perhaps we can modify or improve it from within? Alas, this doesn’t seem very likely. The corporate and finance...

The Next Crisis – A Perfect Storm?

Even if we agree that the system is in a downward spiral, it may be just a phase, not necessarily the sign of a terminal decline. The end of capitalism has already been prophesied many times (arguably rivalled only by predictions of the Second Coming of Christ). So...