Post-Material Economics

Around the world today, a post-material turn is slowly but inexorably shifting fundamental human concern from material possession to the experience of life itself as the final source of meaning. The purpose of this blog and the book behind it is to set out a new "post-material" economics needed to understand the consequences of this movement to a new and different future. Please go to my Facebook timeline for links to articles related to post-materialism.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

A Great Idea! Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit by a trillion dollars over the next decade! We could easily pay for it with a carbon tax that would stimulate an economic boom in the clean energy industry and retard climate change to boot. Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? Economists do, but they (including me) are often wrong.

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What Would It Take to Replace the Pay Working-Class Americans Have Lost? Economic View By   NEIL IRWIN   DEC. 9, 2016 Continue ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

2. Economic Democracy for a Post-Material Future

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NOTE I AM REPOSTING THIS BOOK CHAPTER IN RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ON 12/6//2016 "A BIGGER ECONOMIC PIE, BUT A SMAL...
Friday, December 2, 2016

1. MILLENNIALS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HOPE

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The 1950s teenage male dream when I was growing up in Seattle, Washington was obtaining a drivers license and buying a car at age 16. An...
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I am a retired economics professor and a founder of the Driftless Area Land Conservancy, Dodgeville, WI. My essential passion is hiking, wildflower photography and botanizing in the Mountain West. I live in Milwaukee with my beautiful wife, Carol. I have two wonderful sons, Edward and Jeremy. Paperback or digital copies of my books, ECONOMICS FOR A POST-MATERIAL FUTURE or THE COMING GOOD BOOM, can be purchased at Amazon.com.
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