G:  Craig, the technical term ‘complexity’ that I use is not ‘complicatedness’. It is elaborate behaviour that can arise from simple interactions among simple components.

So your remarks do not apply, whatever the merits of your claim of new paradigm, which I admit I have not tried to fathom. Advocate your own, but do not dismiss that which you do not understand.

Me:  Geoff,

With all due respect I don’t see any significant difference between complicatedness and “elaborate behavior”. The latter is a description of emergent I believe, but the anomalies that kept emerging from Ptolemaic cosmology in trying to make it fit the motions observed and justify itself were (as it turned out) mere complications and were only resolved by the paradigm changing concept of helio-centrism, the new tool of the telescope and the discovery of the ellipse.

The emergent quality of financial instability likewise is only going to be resolved by recognizing the new monetary and financial paradigm I advocate, which fulfills all of the signatures of historical paradigm changes by the way.

Sharing. Direct and universal sharing. That would align it with the concept behind the new monetary paradigm of Gifting, the new ethic/zeitgeist and the newly cognited upon reality of the cosmos, namely that it is in an abundant, dynamic, interactive, integrative and free flowing state of grace.

Philanthropy of course also directly aligns with garce as in Monetary Gifting.

We are in disintegrative times….unless we discover the monetary, financial and economic new paradigm that will bring problem resolution and monetary and economic democracy…and the consequent justice and quiescence to the furies looming up before us.

The new paradigm I advocate would cut through all of the complexity around pricing by de-financializing the economy and by emphasizing the economic significance of the re-retailization of it with the 50% discount/rebate policy at retail sale. The generalized beneficial effects of the policy for all agents individual and commercial is a major signature of all historical paradigm changes as are its focusing, integrating and problem resolving effects.

Complexity is good, wonderful and necessary right up until one cognites on the SINGLE concept which logically and systematically applied changes an ENTIRE PATTERN.

In other words complexity, like food is good, wonderful, necessary, exists entirely within the digestive tract of a new paradigm….and almost entirely consists of wasteful intellectualization as it leaves that integrative process.

Me:  The paradigm of the economy and the money system hasn’t changed for the entire length of human civilization. Economic specialists are not idiots because they don’t believe me, they’re idiots because, curiously from a scientific standpoint, they don’t and/or refuse to analyze from the paradigmatic level.

DT:  But Craig, economics is still in the pre-scientific class because it is using the WRONG paradigm: not of economics but of scientific method. It is disagreeing about paradigms and what they are because empiricists try to theorise events rather than what is channelling and ordering them: trying to bring order out of chaos before it knows how to by mimicking the ‘force’ rather than the ‘communication of information’ paradigm.

Me:  Dave, yes economics is held back by the fact that the monetary paradigm has never changed for the last 5000 years as David Graeber has written about. It has ALWAYS been Debt Only. That is both its conceptual essence and temporal fact….which should satisfy scientists, but mostly doesn’t because the present paradigm for inquiry is Empirical Science Only and hence strongly tends to invalidate and exclude philosophy and integrative phenomena like paradigm changes.

Simply base the 50% discount on after tax price and the monetary authority thus pays for half of the state’s funding needs.

This discussion dramatizes what is wrong with economic theorizing, namely dualistic, obsessive, non-resolving contentiousness.

What is required is integrating BOTH anthropological AND empirical evidences and then considering and finding a single concept that fits seamlessly within and enables a thirdness greater oneness of such evidences namely a pattern/paradigm change. As I have pointed out here many times before two of the major signatures of a paradigm change are the discovery of a new insight and/or tool and conceptual opposition to the current/old paradigm.

So the discovery of the power of a monetary policy at the single aggregative ending point for all consumer goods and services, hence the terminal expression point for all economic factors including inflation and purchasing power and finally that fits seamlessly within the very woof and warp of exchange, i.e. economics/the productive process itself…seems to fit such insight.

And a 50% discount/rebate monetary policy at that point (retail sale) would result in empirically inverting the present realities of individual income scarcity and systemic business revenue austerity into abundance of same thus fulfilling the conceptual opposition signature (and integratively the temporal reality one as well) of genuine paradigm change.

1) Macro-economically the rate of change in credit must always go up or you go into recession according to Steve Keen, yet as that means debt service consequently continuously rises you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place in a rigged cost inflationary monetary system.

2) This is the exact same calculus that C. H. Douglas correctly came to from his cost accounting micro-economic perspective characterized by his statement that “the rate of flow of total costs exceeds the rate of flow of total individual incomes simultaneously created to liquidate them.”

3) Economists have iconoclastically analyzed and de-bunked macro-economics 15 trillion times from the middle….and almost totally neglected and/or totally missed that the real problem is the monopolistic monetary and financial paradigm of Debt Only, that’s ONLY AS DEBT…WHICH ALWAYS MUST GO UP….WHICH WHEN ALL FACTORS ARE CONSIDERED ALWAYS INCREASES COSTS….WHICH MEANS THE SYSTEM IS COST INFLATIONARY…WHICH MEANS A MEANS (READ MONETARY AND FINANCIAL PARADIGM CHANGE) MUST BE FOUND TO COUNTER THE PRESENT PARADIGM…NOT JUST TO CREATE AN EQUILIBRIUM WHICH IS PALLIATIVE, STATIC AND LAGGING, BUT TO CREATE “THE HIGHER FREEING, INTERACTIVE, DYNAMIC, FREE FLOWING AND ETHICAL MONETARY DISEQUILIBRIUM, AND BENEFICIAL PRICE AND ASSET DEFLATION WITH A HIGH PERCENTAGE DISCOUNT/REBATE MONETARY POLICY AT BOTH THE POINT OF RETAIL SALE AND NOTE SIGNING….WHICH IS THE VERY EXPRESSION OF THE NEW PARADIGM OF DIRECT AND RECIPROCAL MONETARY AND FINANCIAL GIFTING.

Economists are extremely intelligent and erudite, but when it comes to paradigm perception and solutions they tend to be “dipsticks”.

A very good article. Perhaps we can paraphrase G. K. Chesterton’s slogan “Three acres and a cow” to: Twenty acres and a solar/battery powered mini-tractor. An economics of grace would include an ultimate wise and respectful attitude toward the land and its cultivation, and the approach would best be integrative in every way.  Incentivizing economic virtues and discouraging economic vices via taxation with a mind toward ecological sanity is a part of the solution, yet costs are the ultimate factor in both economics and ecology. None of the ideas and projects mentioned in your article are ever likely to come to fruition until the money system is taken off our necks and utilized to assist rather than impede such sanity.

In other words you multiply savings’ purchasing power by 2. Then, if you buy a new electric powered auto or solar energy home you not only get a 75% reduction in its price with the double 50% discount, if you use savings to buy it you get an additional doubling of the purchasing power of your savings. Thus a $40k electric car  is purchasable for $10k with the double discount and if you use $5000 of your savings you’ve paid off the total cost of the car and the note goes poof. Normal savings’ purchasing power doubles with the 50% discount/rebate at retail sale for any product or service, and at note signing for “big ticket” and/or green products, but savings’ purchasing power is not doubled on the residual note….unless you do so with a 2x purchasing power of savings policy.

It incentivizes savings and to that degree also tends to reduce overall general and non-green consumption.

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So you’ve not only reduced