Full Description
This is the second volume of a two-part series on Concordian economics, an innovative paradigm that builds upon the Aristotelian-Aquinian tradition of economic justice. Having introduced Concordian economics in the first volume as a compelling research paradigm that addresses the limitations of mainstream economics, this second installment takes the exploration further by examining its real-world applications in four policy areas.
With a focus on industrial organization, labor markets, monetary, and fiscal policy, the author advocates for a transformative approach to economic rights and responsibilities. By promoting a moral economy, this book offers a substitute to the Pac-Man approach to industrial organization. The book challenges traditional notions by discussing the ownership rights concerning larger corporations and offering visionary solutions, in the steps of Louis O, Kelso, empowering workers and employees to participate in the ownership of robots and artificial intelligence. The Fed has given a nod of approval to the creation of a new Concordian monetary system. Following the advice of eight Nobel Laureates in economics, the proposed fiscal reforms emphasize taxing only the value of land and natural resources, ushering in a society where the use of our natural resources and machines serves the common good, economic freedom thrives, and forced income redistribution becomes obsolete.
This book illustrates a vivid vision of a world founded on universal economic rights and responsibilities, offering fresh perspectives on a more just and sustainable future. It appeals to scholars and students of economics and related fields, as well as anyone interested in a free but just economic system.
Contents
Chapter 1. Opening our Minds to Concordian Economics.- Part I. Intellectual Interdependence.- Chapter 2. Politics and Economics.- Chapter 3. The Interdependence of Economic Rights and Responsibilities.- Chapter 4. Peaceful March Toward Concordianism - With a Graceful Walk Away from 1% Capitalism and Marxism.- Part II. Financial Interdependence.- Chapter 5. King Cash.- Chapter 6. Whence Money?.- Chapter 7. Where-to Money?.- Chapter 8. Project Financial Independence.- Part III. Physical Interdependence.- Chapter 9. Toward Economic, Ecological, and Human Interdependence.- Chapter 10. Two Published and Two Unpublishable (?) Urban Plans.- Part IV. Human Interdependence.- Chapter 11. Ethics in Concordian Economics.- Chapter 12. Whence poverty?.- Chapter 13. Oh, the Bancor.- Chapter 14. Economics of Justice and Peace in the World
