The Foundation Of Economic Development Is The

95% Of Economics Is Common Sense Deliberately Made Complicated.

Above A Certain Level Of Income, The Relative Value Of Material Consumption Vis-a-vis Leisure Time Is Diminished, So Earning A Higher Income At The Cost Of Working Longer Hours May Reduce The Quality Of Your Life. More Importantly, The Fact That The Citizens Of A Country Work Longer Than Others In Comparable Countries Does Not Necessarily Mean That They Like Working Longer Hours. They May Be Compelled To Work Long Hours, Even If They Actually Want To Take Longer Holidays.

Since The 1980s, We Have Given The Rich A Bigger Slice Of Our Pie In The Belief That They Would Create More Wealth, Making The Pie Bigger Than Otherwise Possible In The Long Run. The Rich Got The Bigger Slice Of The Pie All Right, But They Have Actually Reduced The Pace At Which The Pie Is Growing.

The Widely Accepted Assertion That, Only If You Let Markets Be Will Everyone Be Paid Correctly And Thus Fairly, According To His Worth, Is A Myth. Only When We Part With This Myth And Grasp The Political Nature Of The Market And The Collective Nature Of Individual Productivity Will We Be Able To Build A More Just Society In Which Historical Legacies And Collective Actions, And Not Just Individual Talents And Efforts, Are Properly Taken Into Account In Deciding How To Reward People.

The History Of Capitalism Has Been So Totally Re-written That Many People In The Rich World Do Not Perceive The Historical Double Standards Involved In Recommending Free Trade And Free Market To Developing Countries.