A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 1 “The World is Pretty Rich, But Once was Poor” — In my teaching and research, I keep coming back to the question of why an economy grows, with the hope of that knowledge helping those that don’t. Can Ancient Greece Help Developing Economies? A Discussion of “Morality, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations: Some Lessons from ancient Greece”medium.com Why Countries Rich with Resources can be so Poor and How to Prevent It A Discussion of “Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique”medium.com

A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 11 “Essential Freedom” Oliver DeMille has detailed in his book how we took a turn away from freedom in 1913, and for that reason he focuses on the importance of freedom in this chapter. …

A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 10 “Solution #3: Tribal Leaders” In Oliver DeMille’s third chapter on solutions, he is calling for tribal leaders to lead the new turning point towards freedom. The true freedom system includes establishing as the most basic unit of society — next to the…

A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 9 “Solution #2: Voracious Readers and Independent Thinkers” DeMille called for “a small but committed few” to adopt his solutions to undo the damage to freedom by the 1913 turning points. (p. 89) We Only Need a Few to Restore Freedom A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 7 “Wanted: A Small Group of Committed Citizens”medium.com While he called for an increase in entrepreneurship in the…

A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 8 “Solution: #1 Entrepreneurship” DeMille notes the entrepreneurial spirit is a part of the American culture, but it can be threatened by an ever-growing federal government. He says the founders were considering what type of national character the new country was going to…

A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 7 “Wanted: A Small Group of Committed Citizens” Oliver DeMille began laying out his case for what it will take to undo the 1913 turning points away from freedom the last chapter. We Need to be the People The Founders Expected A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 6 “The Founding of Freedom in Modern Times”medium.com And as I went through his suggestions, I said I was…

A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 6 “The Founding of Freedom in Modern Times” Oliver DeMille shifts his focus from the first five chapters where he laid out how we broke the founders’ design to an exploration of how we can fix things. He cites economist Murray Rothbard’s observation…

A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 5 “World-Shifting Event #4: United States v. Butler in 1936” The first three world-shifting events that weakened federalism and expanded the power of the federal government occurred in 1913, but Oliver DeMille says the 1936 case United States v. Butler structurally altered how…

A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 4 “World-Shifting Event #3: The Federal Reserve” — Few people today know any way the banking system could be run other than by having a privately owned central bank like the Federal Reserve we have in the U.S. In fact, the Fed is really the Third National Bank of the United States. The first two were early in…