Extending the author's prior researches regarding the trend of economic growth in the twenty-first century; and in particular the indications of contracting Gross World Product (GWP) since 2012 when the current dollar figures are adjusted using the Consumer Price Index (CPI), in contrast with...

This note offers a brief consideration of the quantitative data regarding U.S. manufacturing's net output (i.e. "value added") in aggregate and per capita terms, and shows that while some of the relevant data give an impression of strength, the long-term trend with regard to output, assets and...

"Investments in Societal Complexity, Diminishing Marginal Returns and Neoliberalism: A Note" discusses the switch from "Keynesian Fordism" to "Neoliberal Financialization" as the organizing model for economic policy from the 1970s on, and the consequences for the world economy as understood via...

"What is Centrism?" takes up the issue of the ambiguous and disputed term "centrism" as it has existed in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, and attempts to clarify what it meant intellectually and in terms of its particular political positions, and how the latter in particular...

The term neoliberal has been a source of some controversy in recent years, with critics denying its usefulness. In response to those criticisms this paper analyzes neoliberalism--what is here referred to as Neoliberal Financialization--as an economic model, elaborating it and substantially...

This brief note raises the complex matter of the concept of rent-seeking, particularly as it connects with the author's prior discussion of Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization. In doing so the author argues that where Keynesian Fordism, in line with its leveraging of the...

This working paper considers the case for the use of the Consumer Price Index as a measure of inflation, and its use in calculating real Gross World Product (GWP). The discussion accords particular attention to the way in which the computation of GWP in CPI-adjusted dollars over time more fully...

This paper, in response to the renewed fashion for Keynesian policy, discusses the special mid-century circumstances associated with Keynesianism's greatest period of success, and the contrast it makes with the present, stressing in particular the ways in which the neoliberal shift has come on...

This note discusses the concept of "quasi-middle classness"--a situation differing from middle classness in that the individual or household in question enjoys a level and "style" of consumption associated with middle class persons (e.g. they own a house and car), but does not enjoy other...

This note considers David Rodgers' argument against the relevance of the term "neoliberalism" on the grounds that it combines disparate phenomena perhaps more usefully treated separately—in particular, "market fundamentalism"; a model of financialized-globalized capitalism; "disaster...