Recently, I took some time to write an article in the latest issue of American Affairs Journal. It was penned by the Irish Post-Keynesian economist Philip Pilkington entitled “Capitalism’s Overlooked Contradiction: Wealth and Demographic Decline.” The article was essentially a… Read More ›
The following post pertains to a key aspect of the US taxation system that has not been explored in sufficient detail back in The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.). I discussed the current US taxation system regarding its obvious economic and fiscal… Read More ›
In the previous post, I talked about how the National Intranet and the LERE Process could be governed by Social Forums presiding over computer networks, servers, and active websites. Equivalent to the Councils of a functioning Council Democracy, each Social… Read More ›
I finished gathering the necessary information to write the next half of “A Digitalization of Council Democracy.” My next goal is to complete that post before the end of today, expanding the topic further to address ways in which the… Read More ›
In several ways, blockchain technology provides decentralized safety and confidence. The order in which newly added blocks are always chronological. It means that new blocks are in the “tail” of the blockchain. Unless the majority of nodes in the network… Read More ›
Beyond being transparent with data, the blockchain is also a secure way to store it. Using Bitcoin as an example, here’s how a transaction is added to a new block: When a bitcoin user sends a transaction, a message is… Read More ›
A National Intranet is arguably the ideal structure to implementing a digitized version of Council Democracy in the digital realm. Compared to the World Wide Web (WWW), the National Intranet is isolated enough from the International Internet to convene aspects… Read More ›
A while ago, a person approached me – referred by a mutual friend – with an idea for increasing the effectiveness of democracy. He thought that by using blockchain or similar technology, one could allow people to vote directly on… Read More ›
At some point this week, I am going to delve into research on the topics of E-Democracy and Digital Governance. The discussion about the National Intranet has so far been focused on the economic side, as evidenced by the relevance… Read More ›
Socialist economics after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries underwent a radical transformation during the 1990s. The flaws of Soviet-Type Economic Planning (STEP) not only demonstrated its impracticality at this stage of the State of Total… Read More ›
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