Although understanding the role of ideology is of fundamental importance for understanding social dynamics since the rise of the state 5,500 years ago, it has received relatively little attention. Even when addressed, it most often has suffered from imprecise meaning and a failure to clearly...

This essay explores the future potential for Social Economics. Since the beginning of modern economics, the mainstream has been steered by what might be called a material progress vision, whereby the generally unacknowledged pesumption is that economic growth will make the good life possible....

New technology, the fall of Eastern European socialism, new international trade agreements, and a resurgence of classical liberalism have greatly augmented the pace of capitalism's creative destruction. The principal benefits of this process have come in the form of new, better, and...