Political Economy Simplified

This guide is a basic primer that focuses on economics, finance, politics, and policy for non-economists and policymakers. The author holds advanced degrees in economics, finance, and political science and has taught these disciplines at the university level. He has also worked in an investment management and consulting capacity. In contrast to conventional approaches, this guide offers a new way of understanding our society that departs from the economy as a mechanical system or...
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This guide is a basic primer that focuses on economics, finance, politics, and policy for non-economists and policymakers. The author holds advanced degrees in economics, finance, and political science and has taught these disciplines at the university level. He has also worked in an investment management and consulting capacity. In contrast to conventional approaches, this guide offers a new way of understanding our society that departs from the economy as a mechanical system or programmable machine amenable to simple policy directives. Rather, the adopted metaphor is organic, holistic, and integrative. The analysis focuses on the sustainability of resource input and output flows in a natural cycle over time. Rational, interactive human behavior becomes a key driver of this economic-financial-political ecosystem.This guide is not a compendium of solutions, but a framework for analysis so that we may design solutions together. Our financial and economic predicaments are not accidents of circumstance; we are not victims of fate. Our problems are of our own design due to misguided policies and faulty intellectual models of our world. The road back to sanity starts with small steps."A user-friendly manual that simplifies the political and economic policy landscape. A great resource. Send it to Washington!"