The Just Third Way

For the last couple of weeks, the world has been entertained (if that is the word) by shuffling flash crowds of unemployed protestors paradi...

Opening our e-mail early this morning we got one of those extra-special treats that make our lives easier: an egregious statement that we ca...

Big surprise: as the news from Europe gets worse, the stock market is up . . . no, it's down . . . up . . . down. Rinse, repeat. Actual...

It’s completely insane; utterly irrational. A column in today’s Wall Street Journal , “The Perils of Ignoring History” by David Wessel, is ...

Given all that we said in yesterday's posting, there still seems to be a strong affinity between Thornton's goal and that of distrib...

The response to "All Things Thornton" is mildly astounding. It's not every day that an obscure 19th century economist experie...

For two weeks now we've been telling you about some Dead White European Male by the name of William Thomas Thornton, and the book he wro...

This has been an extraordinarily busy week — as you might expect from the lateness in getting these news items posted today! That's act...

Any of you who managed to work through the posting on the theory of pure credit yesterday deserve to be commended. And rewarded. So here i...

As we saw yesterday, the most reasonable explanation of why the British government ignored William Thornton's proposal in A Plea for Pea...

Looking at the common sense of William Thornton's proposal to deal with the Great Famine in Ireland from 1848 to 1852, we have a hard ti...

For some reason last week's series on William Thornton's 1848 A Plea for Peasant Proprietors seems to have fired the imagination of...

The "big" news this week is President Obama's "jobs plan." We say "big" advisedly. The only thing big ab...

While things are not yet as bad in the world today as they were in Ireland in the 1840s, most people are as dependent on wage system jobs as...

As we saw in yesterday's posting, the way to sustainable economic and social development lies in opening up opportunities for people wit...

In yesterday's posting we saw that Ireland in the late 1840s was what could only be described as a disaster area. Whatever the cause, t...