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Space advocate, author, classical republican, classical liberal, religious humanist, religious naturalist.
economics, space colonization

Henry George: Progress and Poverty

It has been quite some time since I read Henry George’s master piece. However, this post provides a good core of HG’s theory.

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Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time.

The book is a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward cyclical boom and bust.

I want to stress that this was one of the most important books ever written. Only the Bible sold more copies than George!

I want to share my favorite parts. See if you notice how similar the problems of past are to the problems to today.

Introductory – The Problem

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that labor-saving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would…

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economics, Science

Deep sea mining

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About two-thirds of the surface of the Earth is covered by the oceans. And since on land mines are depleting, due to human greed, it is hardly surprising people are looking to explore the seabed for resources. This is known as deep-sea mining. Continue reading Deep sea mining →

economics, Education, Proposals

Rochdale School for Social Enterprise

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Earlier we discussed Michael Parker’s proposal to abolish business schools and to replace them with “schools for organizing”. Though it is unlikely that business school here on Earth will go out of business anytime soon (pun intended), space settlements will provide a unique opportunity to reinvent BS. Continue reading Rochdale School for Social Enterprise →

economics, society

Another argument for Universal Healthcare

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The following article on ScienceDaily:

Preventable deaths from lack of high-quality healthcare costs trilions

provides yet another, economic, argument in favor of universal healthcare system. The main argument of this study is that people dying from treatable conditions unnecessarily decreases a society’s labor force. And hence economic output is also diminished. Continue reading Another argument for Universal Healthcare →

technology

Stem cell therapy

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are somatic cells that are reprogrammed into becoming stem cells and these can then become a wide range of cells and tissues. The ability to turn, say, skin cells into muscle or nerve cells is the foundation of the emerging field of regenerative medicine.

Diabetes reversed in mice with genetically edited stem cells derived from patients Continue reading Stem cell therapy →

economics, Mordan, Proposals

The Mordan Foreign Investment Corporation

This post has been long overdue

Earlier we proposed the establishment of the Mordan Domestic Investment Fund. That fund is intended to stimulate domestic economic development. However, the Mordan Foreign Investment Corporation or MFIC, will focus on investments abroad by investing the Nation’s foreign exchange reserves*.

Continue reading The Mordan Foreign Investment Corporation →