Category Archives: Economy

Meat for Thought

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Robert Tighe

I understand the concept, and the importance, of trademark protection. Like most people, I depend on words to make decisions, and the words used in trademarks—brand names, model designations, specialized descriptive terms—often have more significance than the average. We depend … Continue reading →

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Endless Growth

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Robert Tighe

Two months ago my post discussed one of the major failings of economic analysis and media coverage in the United States: The reverential myth of the powerful leader. By itself, that tendency has created dangerous misinterpretations of economic and regulatory … Continue reading →

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Trickle-Up Time

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Robert Tighe

The philosophy of Economics has developed in odd ways in the past five decades, especially in the popular mind. In the academic world it remains a complex system bound by esoteric mathematics and subdivided into a number of different denominations—I … Continue reading →

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Job Errors

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Robert Tighe

I don’t often buy things online. Maybe a book I can’t get anywhere else, but most often coffee I can’t get locally. That, of course, makes me feel like an outsider in this world in which everything seems to be … Continue reading →

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Commons Problems

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Robert Tighe

If you want to talk about the environment or natural resources or about publicly available information or even privately held resources that are widely shared, you should recognize a concept that describes a well-researched and widely recognized problem. One of … Continue reading →

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Never-ending Keynes

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Robert Tighe

We should all remember the name John Maynard Keynes, born this month, on June 5th, 1883. If this name is not familiar to you, it probably should be. You should also know, in general terms, what the term “Keynesian economics” … Continue reading →

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