Repealing the Iron Law Oligarchy
This one is about failing democracy and the very fundamental tendency toward oligarchy that is one of the underlying causes of its failure. In the interview I discuss Robert Michels […]
Knowledge Management
A Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part Three, the IVCS
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk Hadders This is the concluding post in a three-part series. The first post highlighted the problem of lack of representativeness in modern societies, characterized human […]
A Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part One, Conceptual Foundations
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk Hadders The Disconnect It’s hardly news that there’s a very wide chasm between voters, lawmakers and political parties. The rage in America reflected in the […]
Riskonomics: Reducing Risk by Killing Your Worst Ideas: My New Book
About 6 years ago I stopped posting at my All Life Is Problem Solving site, and shifted my blogging over to other sites devoted to economics and politics, often blogging […]
Why?
Why this blog? Put simply, I wanted a more personalized site unconnected to any other organization or blog site as a home base. I wanted a place to present myself […]