A Tale of Two Norths and Souths, Part 2
In our last post, we looked at how plantation economics is portrayed and, in part, rectified in the book and mid-1980s TV mini-series,...
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Karen Kuykendall
- Aug 9
- 5 min
A Tale of Two Norths and Souths, Part 1
Sometimes we find examples of Partnership Economics in unexpected places. The next two blogs feature famous books--both of which had...
Roger Hines
- Jun 9, 2023
- 4 min
Can Capitalism Be Improved? - A MDJ Book Review
Roger Hines, the well-known columnist for the popular metro-Atlanta news source MDJ (Marietta Daily Journal) is also a career academic and...
Paul Knowlton
- Mar 31, 2023
- 4 min
Reinventing Capitalism in Liminal Time
Capitalism is a system we humans created and constantly reinvent. These reinventions unfold in small and subtle steps punctuated every...
Paul Knowlton
- Sep 16, 2022
- 4 min
Food Fight!
Introducing something new is always a challenge. The bigger and more transformative that something new, of course the greater the...
Paul Knowlton
- Sep 2, 2022
- 3 min
Enough - The Household Version
This post is the second in a short series exploring what we term an ‘ethic of enough’ and one way that ethic is applied to personal...
Paul Knowlton
- Mar 18, 2022
- 3 min
Our Inescapable Network of Mutuality
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s first great dream for America was for her to eradicate her sin of racial inequality. His daring...
Paul Knowlton
- Feb 11, 2022
- 4 min
Milton Friedman’s Profit Fiction: Part 6
This is the sixth of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Paul Knowlton
- Jan 14, 2022
- 4 min
Milton Friedman’s Profit Fiction: Part 2
This is the second of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Paul Knowlton
- Dec 31, 2021
- 5 min
Nature Abhors a Moral Vacuum
In our post of two weeks ago, From Beneficial Market Economy to Destructive Market Society, we observed that market values have permeated...
Aaron Hedges
- Aug 6, 2021
- 4 min
Dad is Fat, and Payday Lenders are Thieves
On a recent family road trip (yes, “trip,” not vacation) from Knoxville, TN, to the Brainerd Lakes Area of Minnesota, my wife and I...
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