Category: Worlds

Since retiring from Frostburg State University in Maryland, I have reflected not only on my more than three decades of teaching college economics in numerous places, but also on how to best teach economics. This is important, as millions of …

Jeff Deist: Welcome, Dr. Smith. I know you are a University of Oklahoma alum and your surgery center is in Oklahoma City. Are you an Oklahoma native?

Keith Smith: Yes, I am. I was born in Tulsa and lived in …

In a recent article, Charles Hugh Smith claims that the landfill economy has put our society in crisis. Here’s how he describes the “landfill economy”:

For the hundred years that resources were cheap and abundant, we could waste everything

The GDP (gross domestic product) statistic portrays a view that the key driving factor of economic growth is not the production of wealth but rather its consumption. Instead, it is a calculation of the value of final goods and services …

In the early morning of July 6th, an explosion damaged a monument in Georgia known as the Georgia Guidestones. Because of the damage, the rest of the monument was demolished for safety reasons. The stones were erected by anonymous donors …