I continue to research and then try new ways of getting the message about the disaster that is neoliberal economics out there into the wild.
Having decided to return to Twitter, or X, I then decided I might as well use it to its best effect, so I have paid for a blue badge to enable me to put up longer posts.
Having done so, I reposted yesterday's post on why the government is not dependent on financial markets on Twitter, in full. The entire blog is there, in one post. I have never done this before.
The resulting data, so far, is:
That is 56,000 views and almost 2,000 active engagements that might not have otherwise happened.
This blog got 29,000 reads yesterday.
That is an experiment I am repeating. Today's blog post on being hard left is now also on X, in full.
I seem to be spending a lot of my life on this research at present. Thankfully, it rewards the geek in me, but it is also suggesting that there is a lot more we can do.
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I think that your hunch is right.
Continue posting on with X (Twitter).
X (Twitter) is the best place to find coverts. The great brainwashed heathens and unbelieving Reform MAGAts hang out there at the Right Wing Nut House..
Preaching to the choir really is not an effective mode of reaching people who NEED to convert!
If you want to save the unsaved masses from alcoholism then an AA meeting is really not the place to expend time & energy preaching.
Agreed…
What do you know about complexity economics?
That is embraces the idea of complexity as a way of trying to overcome the problems in most conventional modelling.
What’s the problem with it? It assumes the right questiomns are being asked.
Are you familiar with the recent work at the Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance?
Their “By Disaster or Design” report is fascinating:
“The way we do business and the way we live our lives is ingrained in a ‘growth at all costs’ mindset. But those ‘costs’ are the very systems that keep us alive.
It’s time for finance to take a new path.
[…]
Our first whitepaper summarizes the challenges faced by finance today; introduces a more solid basis for thinking about the economy, finance and sustainability; and offers some direction for our industry’s next steps, towards greater resilience and wellbeing.”
https://www.arketa-institute.org/resources/by-disaster-or-design
I will take a look
Perhaps Shakespeare might have answered your query.
“To X or not to X, that is Murphy’s question”
Or from Richard III. “Now is the blog of our discontent. Made glorious summer by this sun of X”
🙂
I’m beginning to think you need to perhaps start thinking of talking to a marketing consultant
I am not sure that is working for Steve Keen
Update: Complex Economics
What questions are complexity economists asking?
What questions should complexity economists be asking? And will any economists be able to answer them?
This is the ultimate economic question: are goods and services really scarce, and if so, how and why?
I will be tackling this soon