economics publications « Result #1 on Jul 23, 2009, 10:25pm »
Hello Everyone, My name is Robert Stanford as a person who has an academic background, an MS in economics and I am considering returning to school for a PHD, and has also taught introductory level college economics course; the level of economic literacy and knowledge that the general public has is an issue that is a major concern to me. I am disappointed in the way that the media in general covers economics issues. Most news stories seem to be written by people with little or no background in economics and tend to either ignore the economic side of many issues, give bad information, or take economics ideas out of context. Most academic writing are to technical for the general public to easily access and understand. For this reason I think that there is a need for a popular style journal or publication that would cover current issues using serious economic analysis but written in a way that makes it easily accessible to the general public. This publication would be written in way that is non-ideological and open to people from various economic schools of thought, New Classical, Austrian, Keynesian, New Keynesian, ect. I would love to get feedback or suggestion from people with a background in economics about this idea. So if you have any feedback on this idea or would like to help me out with it, feel free to email me at: populareconomiccs@hotmail.com
Literature for a starting Economics student « Result #2 on Jun 24, 2009, 1:45am »
Hi everyone, I am set to start an Economics course at University in the coming months, and was wondering if anyone could recommend me some literature (ideally a book) with an up to date theme, or I guess fresh take-in light of current events-on the topic.
The reason for my quest is that lately when reading Economic and Science articles on various issues related to the economy and recent global crisis, a common theme I keep seeing is that many of the models in Economics are out of date or imperfect, and need to be updated with the latest scientific ideas regarding psychology, communication, etc. An example with my limited understanding of the topic is the premise that each individual is perfectly rationale, etc.
What I want from this book is a general understanding of the modern thoughts on Economics, which I can 'keep in the back of my mind' when learning the subject at University, to possibly shape or prevent old ideas becoming 'ingrained' into my economic though processes. If this sounds like wishful thinking or simple naive, at the very least I hope to be better prepared when study time does come around!
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Re: Government...what is it? « Result #3 on Sept 21, 2007, 4:14pm »
You speak of "true freedom"...who experiences that Freedom? Individuals do. It's not hard to see that from this simple fact of existence "individuals experience..." one can arrive at an equally elementary fact of existence that is, "individuals act" It is from these two observations that Von Mises constructs his entire philosophy. And this is all prior to notions of "self-interest" etc. Observations regarding self interest are derrived from these presuppositions, not the other way around.
Mankind has done this for centuries. The only way to break this is to break self-interest. You have to be highly educated to do this. So as long as people stay dumb, fat and lazy, like what our current leaders consistently intend to do, we stay ruled by a corporatacracy.
So you think that education will "break self-interest" sounds pretty naive to me. The only way to "break" self-interest (which I don't think is a force that necessarily even needs breaking to begin with) is to eliminate the idea of the "self". This requires an active denial of the fact that people are indeed conscious, acting, INDIVIDUALS. In fact, I think that the poorly named and unfortunately connotated "self-interest" can only increase with education. That is to say that the more we learn the more we realize that we are individuals with distinct and unique wills.
Ludwig Von Mises would say that simply in acting we are being "self interested" to the extent that we are seeking to achieve individually and personally selected goals. That our goals may appear to be altruistic does not take away from the fact that they are nonetheless chosen by us and therefore "self interested".
Ok! Bad wording...or maybe not.
Von Mises is a materialist. As long as we live in a materialist world, "self-interest" will reign supreme and there is no way I can challenge such a worthy definition as defined by Von Mises in the construct of a material world. Individualism, freedom, the self...all attempts to define the world materialistically.
To be enlightened (word I should of used) is to be beyond self-interest. No-self. No individual.
As long as we define our world from a materialist vantage point, we will always have a corporotacracy. People choose to be dumb. So people choose to be ruled by this. It is in their "self-interest."
Not practical to this world you say? Check out what is going on in Burma. You will see what I am talking about.
That is true freedom. And it is not derived by "self-interest."
If you try and argue it materialistically, like say it is in there "self-interest" to do...
Mankind has done this for centuries. The only way to break this is to break self-interest. You have to be highly educated to do this. So as long as people stay dumb, fat and lazy, like what our current leaders consistently intend to do, we stay ruled by a corporatacracy.
So you think that education will "break self-interest" sounds pretty naive to me. The only way to "break" self-interest (which I don't think is a force that necessarily even needs breaking to begin with) is to eliminate the idea of the "self". This requires an active denial of the fact that people are indeed conscious, acting, INDIVIDUALS. In fact, I think that the poorly named and unfortunately connotated "self-interest" can only increase with education. That is to say that the more we learn the more we realize that we are individuals with distinct and unique wills.
Ludwig Von Mises would say that simply in acting we are being "self interested" to the extent that we are seeking to achieve individually and personally selected goals. That our goals may appear to be altruistic does not take away from the fact that they are nonetheless chosen by us and therefore "self interested".
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Re: Government...what is it? « Result #9 on Sept 19, 2007, 8:03pm »
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The corporate world runs our government. Most high-ranking elected and appointed officials are current or former board members of large corporations. Just look at Cheney and Bush have direct, active ties to major corporations that receive huge no-contest government contracts. Governement is quickly becoming the not-so-secret ***** of corporations and their money and it will only get worse because it's become an accepted, if not downright flaunted practice.
People would listen to Micheal Moore more, ha i just said more more, except he is a big fat idiot that smells and is way tooooo biased
WHOA, congratulations you are the 5th person to post on our board, for that, you get an exaltation. And welcome to the Temple Economics Society Forum!
You prove a good point. We are run by a corporatocracy. That's what you get when you have free markets. Communism anyone? There really isn't a difference.
Mankind has done this for centuries. The only way to break this is to break self-interest. You have to be highly educated to do this. So as long as people stay dumb, fat and lazy, like what our current leaders consistently intend to do, we stay ruled by a corporatacracy.
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