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Nice tribute and spot on reductionist analysis. Too bad it still ignores and fails to recognize what will accomplish everything you say you want to accomplish, i.e. the end of inevitable debt deflation, making economics and the money system serve humanity instead of Man having to slavishly serve them, awakening to the importance and power of accounting in the money system and last but not least enabling the funding of energy research and the mega-projects necessary to give us our best shot at handling climate change.

And what will accomplish this? Discovering a new operant concept/paradigm and how it can most efficaciously be applied. Too simple for the erudite, too universally beneficial not to be a paradigm change.

I've always affirmed your research and conclusions, just tried to point you in the direction of how to actually implement them. Bitching hasn't been very successful so far. I challenge you to run Minsky on all of the monetary and accounting policies in my book and see if they don't resolve the deepest problems of macro-economics. I hope you can find additional ways to make Monetary Gifting coupled with accounting resolve problems than the 20 or so ways I've so far innovated in my book. My most recent policy even offers private banking "a proposition they cannot resist."

Give it a shot. Resolving problems is much more gratifying than bitching because nothing ever changes.

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Steve, what better strategy to surplus labour than through a central organizing myth (economics) that is riddled with false assumptions, orthodoxed biases and confused solutions.

To suggest the social sciences can be proved using the tools of the physical sciences, namely math and repeatable observation, is a mug's game keeping the confusion expanding.

Athena is goddess of war and wisdom. Raven is trickster and bringer of light.

Uncertainty is a capital safeguard to surplus labour.

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