With the country gripped in the icy
grip of a gripping Polar Vortex, the Just Third Way forges on in hot pursuit of
justice:
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| Bill Moyer |
• Credit Course in Binary Economics Offered. Dr. Robert Ashford reports that Syracuse
University is now giving course credit to students attending his course on binary
economics course. This is a major breakthrough in Academia for the Just Third
Way and the economics of reality.
• Bill Moyer Interviews Kelso.
Okay, it’s not exactly breaking news, but in a broadcast aired July 29,
1990, Bill Moyer interviewed Louis Kelso.
The transcript is
here. Both Moyer and Kelso kept
using the word “capitalism,” which we try to avoid . . . after all, “capital”
is things, and do you want to espouse “thing-ism”? The interview is good, though, if you
mentally edit some of the terminology.
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| Louis O. Kelso |
• Review of The Capitalist
Manifesto. We also recently had
brought to our attention a
review of The Capitalist Manifesto
by Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler. The
review, by University of Minnesota Law School professor Harlan M. Blake writing
in the University of Chicago Law Review,
is clearly written from a “Currency Principle” perspective and therefore uses
the wrong framework of analysis. It’s a
little like reviewing a mathematics textbook and attacking it because it’s not
a romance novel. The problem, of course,
is that Kelso and Adler were writing from the perspective of the “Banking
Principle,” so the reviewer ended up comparing apples and oranges. For example, Blake stated that Kelso and
Adler’s work recalled that of Henry Simons . . . except that Simons’s work was
the complete opposite of Kelso and Adler in the key area of money and credit! Simons advocated carefully controlled
creation of money by the government backed by its own debt, while Kelso and
Adler proposed that new money only be created as needed backed by private
sector assets — a completely different way of looking at things, and one that
puts the people in charge instead of the government. Simons, for example, refused to endorse his
own plan because he could not figure out a way to keep the politicians from
taking it over, while Kelso’s proposal would make it impossible for the
politicians to do anything with respect to money creation even if they did
seize control.
• Second Income Plan Films. Another
interesting item that we came across is a
film of “the Second Income Plan. Actually,
it’s three pieces, all of which are in “bite size” pieces of less than twenty
minutes each.
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• Blog Readership. We have had visitors from 29 different
countries and 46 states and provinces in the United States and Canada to this
blog over the past week. Most visitors are from the United States, the United
Kingdom, India, Australia, and the Philippines . The most popular postings this past week in
descending order were “Fulton
Sheen and the Roots of the Problem,” “A
Democratic Socialist Responds,” “Thomas
Hobbes on Private Property,” “From
Social Christianity to Christian Socialism,”
and “News
from the Network, Vol. 12, No. 04.”
Those are the happenings for this
week, at least those that we know about.
If you have an accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a
note about it at mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into
the next “issue.” If you have a short
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blog — do not send them to us to post for you.
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