Resources
ActualAbundance
1 resource — Abundance is a buzzy buzzword among the hopeful Democrats who wish to revitalized their brand. Ideas of scarcity abundance are threaded throughout this work. This tag highlights the Aspect of Abundance with political power.
DontPanic
2 resources
EconomicRomance
4 resources — An era is defined by an Economic Romance: a relationship between the talented strivers of the world and the rich bosses who both fund and profit from their effort. The passion in this relation shapes our identity. Any story of a New Economy is also a story of a New Romance. This tag traces this thread.
FoldAndPin
6 resources — Threaded through our story is a game of folding and pinning layers of history. Our prevailing narrative is based on weak historical analogies. We want to do it better, aligning deep historical logic rather than mere surface similarities. This tag highlights those sections which are key to pushing forward this project.
FolkWisdom
5 resources — Who understands the New Economy best? We suggest that the community of engineers intensely involved from the beginning developed a consistent worldview. But it was impossible for outsiders to understand, for it consisted of odd, even phantasmagorical observations akin to "Red Sky in Morning." A good portion of the early part of this story explains and then interprets this "Folk Wisdom." The big surprise is that our retelling of these odd aphorisms turns into unexpectedly orthodox theory.
GedankenGrass
1 resource
HelpMeHicks
5 resources — Our story is told by a mathematical economist. But we do no math. Like Keynes, we prefer "roughly right" to "precisely wrong." Among the academic set, Keynes' reputation is built by his main mathematical interpreter, Hicks. Our footnotes joke about the ambition to inspire two derivative works: a textbook in mathematical economics, and a high school musical. This tag protects the patience of the former talent.from the material meant to inspire the other. So help me Hicks!
ImmerWahr
6 resources — Clara's name, Immerwahr, means Always True. Early on we articulate an Immerwahr Principle: that truths about a stable economic order remain Always True. These principles guide our investigation, so when we move to prescriptive politics we know what we expect to see. This tag marks sections informed by the spirit of Immerwahr.
NegotiationNarrative
3 resources
PityTerror
7 resources — Our story is informed by a sense of tragedy. We open with a story of an engineer with a vision. He dreamed of a world his innovation would enable. He saw the future --- and saw it wrong. Our story is repeatedly moved by pity and terror. This tag marks warnings of hubris and hamartia.
RenewBlessing
2 resources
RoadTrip
4 resources — We organize our story with the image of a road (or raft!) trip. Two Not-Princesses bully a reluctant demi-god to join them on a journey to Restore the Heart of Conservatism. Our difficult demi-god is a mathematical economist akin to Hari Seldon. This tag picks out the raft trip saga.
SimplifySimplify
5 resources — The first undertaking in my life bigger than a problem set became this book. Embarking on the world of adult creativity, I leaned on Krugman's Rules of Research. Of his four rules, few inspired me more than his exhortation: "Simplify, Simplify!" This tag picks out the drama of the Search for Simplicity .
TrackTopology
4 resources — Our opening story is a cautionary tale of someone who saw the topology of the track ahead, inspiring him to throw a switch. But he saw wrong, and thus chose wrong. The choices we make today are influenced by our understanding of the topology of the track ahead. This tag marks this topological thought.
TrummerFrauen
1 resource — TrummerFrauen is a German word for "rubble wives." In popular myth, directly after World War Two, German war widows spontaneously organized to clear the rubble of their ruined cities. This myth was foundational to a new spirit of unity and pride, supporting the success of German democracy. By contrast, the the failed Weimar Republic was bedeviled by stab-in-the-back mythology. Articles with this tag ask what it takes to foster the healthy, forward looking civic mythology.
YesWeKhan
1 resource
