Periodically, as reaching the debt ceiling approaches, a spate of articles and posts appear in the mainstream media warning about an impending government financial crisis, and doing so in a […]
Debt ceiling crisis politics has now provided us a temporary respite by getting a Continuing Resolution passed that will re-open the government until the next deadline for broader agreement on […]
This post replies to a Facebook post by Erik Rydberg. Thanks for your facebook post. It brings out an important issue. But I agree with some of the critics that […]
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 […]
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 […]
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk Hadders Requirements for an e-participation platform in human political CASs We won’t be able to stop the movement toward oligarchy unless we can create a […]
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 […]
This book is about a counter-narrative to austerity politics. It exposes its fallacies, and, I hope, its closed-mindedness and futility. It also offers a way out of austerity politics. That […]
We need big, big changes in the United States. Many of them will require the Federal Government to spend unprecedented amounts, including deficit spending to enable us to solve problems […]
This is how the mission of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was defined by the White House on February 18, 2010: The Commission is charged with […]