Hudson fingers a single foe as the central mechanism of economic dysfunction, the thing which explains how debt, landlords, and private healthcare are dragging us down to ruination. He points to ‘economic rent’ as this evil, to those parts of
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Is Rent the Problem? (Hudson IIa)
Hudson fingers a single foe as the central mechanism of economic dysfunction, the thing which explains how debt, landlords, and private healthcare are dragging us down to ruination. He points to ‘economic rent’ as this evil, to those parts of the economy which profit in excess of “the basics cost of production plus normal profits,”…
Foundations for Rebutting (Hudson I)
Islander VI’s interview of Michael Hudson presents several real problems but provides no good solutions. I don’t just mean that it fails to provide solutions; Hudson tries. The solutions he offers, however, are problems in themselves, broken reeds and poisonous medicine. Government interference is not the solution, as a rule, to the problems he observes;…
Guilt Enables Manipulation (& Christ’s Answer)
A guilty man is immensely vulnerable, even impotent. The man who feels guilt has no stable ground to stand on when he is challenged; he is weak, crumpled up in the corner, like a tripod with one bum leg. Even when the assault comes against his blameless parts, such as they are, his awareness of…