John Benton, Author at Bent On Futurology

Our description of, and links to, the topics

Why not begin with facts and data? Discover key functions and relations by which to understand any economy and any economic event.

“Early Economics” is on the beginnings of economies. The setting is pre-history but the structure revealed is part of all economies, ancient and modern.

“Two Kinds of Work” goes further and describes two kinds of work and two corresponding kinds of goods and services in any economy.

“Modern Economics” provides an ultra-brief glimpse of two kinds of supply and demand and financial structures in modern exchange economies.

In “Culture & The Economy” we touch on the larger context which includes culture and economics, recovery and the possibility of (ongoing) progress.

“Future economics” considers how we might gradually and efficiently implement new thinking and new practices in cultures and economies around the world.

…philosophers for at least two centuries, through doctrines on politics, economics, education, and through ever further doctrines, have been trying to remake man, and have done not a little to make human life unlivable. The great task that is demanded if we are to make it livable again is the re-creation of the liberty of…