{"id":362216,"date":"2018-05-22T01:41:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T00:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/notes-on-some-classical-thinking\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T01:41:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T00:41:03","slug":"notes-on-some-classical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/notes-on-some-classical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Some Classical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Notice the \u201cnotes\u201d in the title. Part 3 is no textbook. Part 3 is a miniscule \u201cCliff Notes.\u201d Notice, too, that the title reads \u201cclassical\u201d thinking, not \u201cearly\u201d thinking. There\u2019s a difference. Since I regard human transactions as the bedrock of any economy and economic system, were I to choose the latter over the former qualifier I would have a lot of ground to cover, namely, that of early humans and their thinking as deduced from artifacts. An impossible task for me.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not at all impossible for me, however, to skim the thinking of three classicists, Aristotle (384-322 BC), Adam Smith (1723-1790) and Karl Marx (1813-1883). Of the three, Marx came the closest to being a quasi-economist. He wrote about his vision of socialism 19 years before he wrote his <em>Das Kapital<\/em>, yet he began his career as a radical journalist that got him expelled by the governments of three countries. The same experience might have befallen me had I not kept my mouth mostly shut during my career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aristotle\u2019s Thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aristotle (384-322 BC) may just be the premium thinker of all time. And he thought a lot about the economies of his era. It behooves me, therefore, to \u201cconsult\u201d with him through his writings and their interpretations since great minds (his, certainly not mine) live on.<\/p>\n<p>In his day the Greek word for economy meant \u201chousehold management\u201d within the context of the community. Today in the USA economy means banksters and Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>Economic activity&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/05\/notes-on-some-classical-thinking\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice the \u201cnotes\u201d in the title. Part 3 is no textbook. Part 3 is a miniscule \u201cCliff Notes.\u201d Notice, too, that the title reads \u201cclassical\u201d thinking, not \u201cearly\u201d thinking. There\u2019s a difference. Since I regard human transactions as the bedrock of any economy and economic system, were I to choose the latter over the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}