Better Capitalism Book Review - Cato Institute
Art Carden is the Margaret Gage Bush Distinguished Professor of Economics at Samford University’s Brock School of Business. He's also a...
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Paul Knowlton
- Mar 31
- 4 min
Reinventing Capitalism in Liminal Time
Capitalism is a system we humans created and constantly reinvent. These reinventions unfold in small and subtle steps punctuated every...
Aaron Hedges
- Jan 6
- 5 min
Jesus as Behavioral Economist - On Being Better Together
This is the fifth and final post in a series that takes a behavioral economics perspective on Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount. If Jesus...
Paul Knowlton
- Nov 11, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Ayn Rand - Without a Cannibal's Lust
This is the 5th of a 6-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Ayn Rand’s influential Atlas Shrugged, or at least...
Paul Knowlton
- Oct 14, 2022
- 3 min
Understanding Ayn Rand - The Mother of Capitalism
The influence of Ayn Rand’s last novel, Atlas Shrugged (first published in 1957), simply can’t be ignored. Rand called it, particularly...
Aaron Hedges
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
In God We Trust - Hebrew Bible and Lenders and Borrowers
This post is the third in a series exploring how the thread of Partnership Economics weaves through the ancient texts of the Hebrew...
Paul Knowlton
- Jun 17, 2022
- 6 min
Women's Work and Why Capitalism Needs Feminism
I was born a feminist. Or maybe it’s my social location, watching my immigrant Cuban mother navigate a professional career in America. Or...
Paul Knowlton
- May 27, 2022
- 5 min
Understanding Adam Smith - Mutuality
This is the last of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- May 20, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Adam Smith - The Fallacy of Laissez-Faire
This is the 7th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- May 13, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Adam Smith - Government + Pursuit of Happiness
This is the 6th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- May 6, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Adam Smith - Giving the Rich a Hand
This is the 5th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- Apr 29, 2022
- 3 min
Understanding Adam Smith - Empathy Before It Was Cool
This is the 4th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- Apr 22, 2022
- 3 min
Understanding Adam Smith - The Impartial Spectator
This is the 3rd of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- Apr 15, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Adam Smith - The Invisible Hand
This is the 2nd of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- Apr 8, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Adam Smith - I Am Your Father
Adam Smith (1723–1790), the Scottish philosopher turned economist, is most famous for his 1776 magnum opus, An Inquiry into the Nature...
Paul Knowlton
- Apr 1, 2022
- 4 min
Improving Your Ability to See (Dragons)
In our previous blog post, Your Ability to See, we pointed to a primary danger of being overly attached and even proud of carefully...
Paul Knowlton
- Feb 25, 2022
- 4 min
Your Spiritual Intelligence And Our Next New Normal
The year is 2022. American capitalism and the American workplace are in the throes of a reboot, whether we like it or not. How do we all...
Paul Knowlton
- Feb 11, 2022
- 4 min
Milton Friedman’s Profit Fiction: Part 6
This is the sixth of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Aaron Hedges
- Oct 1, 2021
- 4 min
Better Taxes, Part 3: Reviewing Last Month's Democratic Party Proposal through Partnership Economics
In May we posted appreciative remarks on social media for the G7 agreement to establish a global minimum tax for corporations. Early last...
Aaron Hedges
- Sep 3, 2021
- 4 min
Better Taxes, Part 2: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
We don’t expect corporate entities to govern themselves and broader economics in the best interests of the overall public without any...
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