Economics

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(Stu)Dying Economics?

23 Jan 2020 4 minute read 1 comment Wiwiller $0.02

Studying Economics seemed to be a reasonable thing to do after finishing high school. With high expectations that I will learn how the economy of my home country Germany and the world in general works I enroled in an undergraduate Economics course at...

The Liberland’s biggest problem is not its neighbor

18 Jan 2020 18 minute read 0 comments sotospeak $0.11

In this article you will learn what is the nature of the state, the nature of the market and the biggest problem that Liberland faces today. The intention of the writer is to make questions based on 1. the historical data of Liberland, and 2. the Aus...

The Minimum Wage Doesn't Impact Unemployment Rate

11 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel $0.03

Any time there are talks about increasing the minimum wage, the same talking point comes back, "increasing the minimum wage increases the unemployment rate." Being from the south, all you have to do is look around an know that isn't true. The most re...

Buddhist Economics

10 Jan 2020 6 minute read 0 comments nimediapresentations $0.01

Nicholas Italia 2/22/04 Phi 311   BUDDHIST ECONOMICS               “Buddhist Economics” is the title of chapter three of E.F. Schumacher’s book, This I Believe. In this chapter, Schumacher answers the question, “how do Buddhists work in the world tod...

The Political, Economic, And Social Impacts Of Blockchain

7 Jan 2020 7 minute read 0 comments G4G Crypto Training $0.04

Will blockchain and cryptocurrencies impact our political, economic, and social landscape?  Yes.  All three of these topics are being reshaped and redesigned by the influence of this new technology. The impacts of the digital age are grinding their w...

The Gender Pay Gap and Calvin University

6 Jan 2020 12 minute read 0 comments Hoshiko2nd $0.05

In the Spoelhof College Center of Calvin University, there hangs a poster regarding the gender pay gap. This is a rather divisive topic, especially considering its context in recent years. The poster makes interesting choices on how to break down the...

Global Wealth Potential from Solar Energy

1 Jan 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman $0.49

If Earth were a closed system, economics would be a zero, or worse a negative sum game. Luckily it’s not. A common argument against the ability for life to exist is that the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases within a closed...

When Mao Zedong got trapped in the butterfly effect

21 Dec 2019 2 minute read 0 comments paragism $0.07

Cover Image Source “A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.” ― Neil Gaiman ‘The Butterfly Effect’ was an American sci-fi movie released in 2004. It received good commercial success. The ce...

Destroying The Unspoken Fourth Branch of Government

5 Dec 2019 6 minute read 1 comment Daniel Goldman $0.26

People often call the media “the fourth estate” but there is a fourth branch of government hiding right under our noses. Everyone knows that there are three branches of government: the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judic...

That’s not Socialism

26 Nov 2019 6 minute read 5 comments Daniel Goldman $0.12

What so many people, including many self labeled socialists, get wrong.   But that’s not socialism. These institutions fly in the face of the very founding ideals of socialist thinkers. In fact, I will show further along in this discussion, a quote...