'Monstrous Moral Hybrids' and the Corrupting Quality of Public Debt
This is the penultimate version of the last of six chapters in a book titled Public Debt: An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy. This essay explores how public debt is a troubling practice for...
View ArticlePublic Debt within Systems of Monopolistic Democracy
This paper is the penultimate draft of the fifth of six chapters of a book titled Public Debt: An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy. This paper modifies the benchmark condition of a cooperative...
View ArticleBudgeting and Public Debt within a System of Cooperative Democracy
This paper is the penultimate draft of the fourth of six chapters of a book titled Public Debt: An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy. This essay establishes an analytical benchmark of a...
View ArticleEngines, Ecologies, and Economic Systems
This is the third of six chapters of the penultimate draft of a book titled Public Debt: An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy. This essay asks the reader to think whether an economy in its...
View ArticlePolitical Economy and the Supply of Macro Guidance
This is the second of a six chapters of the penultimate draft of a book titled Public Debt: An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy. This essay explores just who it is that supplies the macro...
View ArticleMacroeconomics, Fiscal Policy, and Public Debt
This is the first of six chapters of the penultimate draft of a book titled Public Debt: An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy. The book’s theme is an elaboration and refinement of the early 20th...
View ArticlePublic Debt
Over the past decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. Using methodological individualism and microeconomics,...
View Article"Markets in Education" with David Schmidtz
Charter schools—which are still publicly funded and required to meet basic performance standards for public schools—are a marginal shift toward incorporating the mutually adjusting forces of supply and...
View ArticlePublic Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance
In this book Paul Dragos Aligica revisits the theory of political self-governance in the context of recent developments in behavioral economics and political philosophy that have challenged the...
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Reassessing the Notion of Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Over 4.4 million Americans filed new unemployment claims during the week ending April 18th, for a total of over 26 million claims from business closures, furloughs, and layoffs due to the COVID-19...
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