The 2008 financial meltdown, which started on Wall Street, rippled around the world, leading some to question the advantages of economic interdependence. Thank you for reading this post, don’t forget to subscribe! New political figures such as Donald Trump, in… Read More ›
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Scenario 1999: International Relations between SSEs and their Central Governments
What has been said about diplomacy between the Student Governments and Central Governments of different nations in The Third Place (1st Ed.) is readily applicable to the digital realm. One of the more promising developments since the 1990s was the… Read More ›
Work-Standard Accounting Practices: Accounting Standards (Pt. II of II)
Is it tenable to envisage the adoption of alternative accounting practices in non-Liberal Capitalist conceptions of world order? If one has already entertained a world order where nations adhering to Scientific and Artistic Socialism (Marxist and non-Marxist respectively) coexist, is… Read More ›
Work-Standard Accounting Practices: Financial Indicators of Dasein Fulfillment
The Council State relies on two sets of financial indicators based on data in the Worksheet of Sociable Accounts (WSA). Both sets of financial indicators are governed by WSA’s Domestic Accounts and Foreign Accounts. It pertains to areas of economic… Read More ›
“Fiscal Federalism” and the Work-Standard (Pt. II of II)
The Jeffersonian conception of Fiscal Federalism is in many respects the result of the shared paradigm between Production for Profit and Production for Utility. It assumes its proper form within the US taxation system as it currently exists. The average… Read More ›
Applying the Work-Standard to International Relations (Pt. II of II)
Everything associated with the Work-Standard is informed by two specific theories. There is a Theory of Value and a Theory of Money guiding the interactions between the Totality’s Arbeit and Geld. Those are the Reciprocal Theory of Value (RTV) and… Read More ›
On Premature Deindustrialization
Today, the lines between Liberal Capitalism and Conservative Socialism are being drawn as the Left-Right Political Spectrum continues its protracted collapse. As the world continues in this third decade of the current century, the birthing pains of another state of… Read More ›
The Third Place: Foreign Enterprises and the Shopping Citadel
Foreign Enterprises are capable of becoming potential tenants at a Shopping Citadel. However, as part of the Council State’s stances on Autarky within international trade, Foreign Enterprises are ineligible to become tenants at the Shopping Arenas. Instead, they will… Read More ›
The Third Place: On Economic Foreignization
The term “Economic Foreignization (EF)” was introduced in The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.) to describe a phenomenon that often occurs as part of Real Trade Agreements (RTAs). When the Council State agrees to the terms of an RTA that it has… Read More ›
The Third Place: Applying MTEP in Shopping Citadels and Arenas
The “Shopping Citadel” and the “Shopping Arena” are designed to serve as Production for Dasein’s antitheses to the Shopping Mall and Shopping Center, the latter of which are manifestations of the first and second Modes of Production. The economic capabilities,… Read More ›
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