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THE SEARCH FOR A NEW ECONOMIC THEORY |
"What we have today |
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"What could be more insane
than for the human race to die out |
Politicians and corporations are not the primary problem. The primary problem is the poorly trained academic economists who guide our leaders with the hopelessly outdated tenants of a radically destructive economic theory. Note that many media-friendly economists work for banks. That should tell you something...
Becauseof the extremely dangerous (and actually quite
ridiculous) non-workable assumptions
of neoconservative market fundamentalist economic 'theory', most
of our political representatives have been brainwashed into believing that
"there is no such thing as society'. (Margaret Thatcher).
We
have seen how this 'theory' works when applied to current economic and
environmental crises. The environmental crisis is ignored (Copenhagen).
The economic crisis is dealt with by rewarding and consulting with the
perpetrators, thus ensuring that the destructive economic dogma
remains intact.
"dogma I am god"--a pallindrome by Canadian poet bp Nichol
Even political representatives who want to respond to growing social and environmental crises find their hands tied by party politics. Any who stray from the party line are suspected of having 'socialist' tendencies...
Mainstream media 'news' has, for the most part, been reduced to coverage of murders and disasters at home; and the reporting of disasters and wars abroad. For example, in Canada, the question of whether or not Afghan detainees have been tourtured has been debated for months with no end in sight. But the question "Why are we in Afghanistan?" is never asked. Citizen are encouraged not to think; and to be afraid.
My website has two purposes, with a particular focus on
the situation in Canada:
1. To refute, in
detail, the abstract, ridiculous profit-based
neoconservative market fundamentalist economic 'theory' which,
today, is destroying almost everyone and everything it touches (the first
few links).
2. To articulate, in
detail, a new, local, people-based
economic theory which can be realistically, paractically applied to our
local human/environmental space: and expand from there. A politics from
the grassroots up: an Earthbound Economics. (See my Policies,
Energy, and Earth links)
| A JUST ECONOMY = A JUST SOCIETY |
"I sincerely believe...that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies" Thomas Jefferson, 1816 |
