It is generally agreed that the Internet and smartphones are ubiquitous aspects of everyday life in the early 21st century. Everyone uses the Internet to connect with others and everyone else browses on their smartphone when the opportunity arises. It is… Read More ›
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SMP Compendium: Why the “Splinternet” is an Alternative to the World Wide Web (WWW)
Information technologies grew up alongside nuclear technologies in the wake of the Second World War. The most obvious example of their pervasive importance is of course the World Wide Web (WWW). The WWW is the digital medium that everyone uses… Read More ›
Update (30 July 2023)
This is it. The final Section of the Third Edition of The Work-Standard is the last one to be posted. I am going to post them six hours after the Update post goes live. If I am satisfied with the… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Japan’s Lost Decades and the Rise of Zombie Firms and Zombie Banks
The “Lost Decade” refers to an economic and financial crisis that affected Japan in the 1980s-1990s, the effects of which continues to linger as of late. The Japanese were devastated by the bursting of the asset-price bubble that came as… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Exchange Rates and the Impossible Trinity
Every Currency has an Exchange Rate that determines its Value when compared against the Value of another Currency. This is best demonstrated by the Price of conversions between one Currency to another. If one wishes to know how much their Geld… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Applications of Autarkic and Protectionist Trade Policies
Alexander Hamilton has given Socialism its political philosophy on the conduct of international trade. “Protectionism” and “Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)” are the means of achieving Autarky. Autarky, it should be prefaced, is not an ideal but a strategic goal for… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: On Movements of Arbeit, Geld, and Information
In the Socialist Nation, everyone is expected to live within their own means of production, regardless of whether there is any international trade or not. Even so, there will always be moments where the State will be conducting trade with… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: On Formation of Customs Unions and Monetary Unions
If there are already five different Currencies pegged to the Work-Standard, certain accommodations may have to be made for Customs Unions, Political Unions, Economic and Monetary Unions. Anything short of literal annexation through economic means is acceptable and shall be… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Political-Economic and Currency Unions
As established earlier in the SMP Compendium, the Socialist Nation’s geographical location is impacted by whether it is in the Western world (“developed country”) or outside the Western world (“developing country”). The details of the Work-Standard are broad enough to… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Potential Feasibility of the Work-Standard as a World Reserve Currency
Even though the Bretton Woods System is dead, the US Dollar still continues to be the “World Reserve Currency.” Everyone knows the Value of the US Dollar within Exchange Rates and everyone outside the Western world clamors for it during… Read More ›
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