by Think In The Morning | Nov 8, 2025 | More |
In Politics and Markets 1, using Charles Lindblom’s model, I discussed how capitalism can undermine democracy. Let’s turn this around and look at how democracy can undermine capitalism.The influential economist Joseph Schumpeter finished his career at Harvard...
by Think In The Morning | Nov 5, 2025 | More |
In 1977 Charles Lindblom published Politics and Markets. In the book he explored what he called “the privileged position of business” in capitalist democracies. Governments depend on private business to invest, create jobs, and maintain economic stability....
by Think In The Morning | Oct 30, 2025 | More |
The only appropriate answer to “fiction or nonfiction? art or science?” is both.Fiction is a simulator. It provides emotional knowledge. How does a character’s suffering, courage, cowardice, love, loss and redemption feel? It provides moral imagination. “What...
by Think In The Morning | Oct 25, 2025 | More |
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Thucydides It’s been fifty years since I studied the history of western civilization at Stanford. My professor, E. Berkeley Tompkins, wrote Anti-Imperialism in the United States: The Great Debate,...
by Think In The Morning | Oct 21, 2025 | More |
Donald Trump and the Evil Queen in Snow White share two overriding traits: their psychological narcissism and their penchant for retribution. You may think it’s strange to have a fairy-tale-like character as President of the United States but it is what it is....
