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The year is 2022. American capitalism and the American workplace are in the throes of a reboot, whether we like it or not. How do we all...

Ahead of writing every Partnership Economics blog post we remind ourselves of you, our typical reader. Among other things, we understand...

This is the sixth of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...

This is the fifth of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...

This is the fourth of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...

This is the third of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...

This is the second of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...

This is the first of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...

In our post of two weeks ago, From Beneficial Market Economy to Destructive Market Society, we observed that market values have permeated...

I recently came across a December 2020 article from the Financial Times titled "A Better Form of Capitalism is Possible." The title...

The philosopher and Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel is no stranger to addressing the moral and civic questions of our time. In a 2012...

You don’t need a PhD to engage economics any more than you need to be a botanist to shop for fruit. Anyone who knows people can (and...

“For a while he trampled with impunity on laws human and divine; but, as he was obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he...

In 1951, twenty-one-year-old Princeton economics student John Bogle wrote a thesis on something he had never heard of before—the...

What’s missing from our workplace wellness and well-being efforts? What’s the elephant in the room we’re typically too hesitant to...

Our workplace experience is that we know something is wrong and something is missing. Wouldn’t it be great to get the right answer to the...

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner for decades, doesn’t mince words. Speaking to a group of foundation money managers in...

We recognize that our use of the phrase ‘plantation system economics’ to underscore the universality of exploitation evokes America’s...

Once upon a time a man named John Sr. had two successful businesses. Each business had dozens of employees. John Sr. managed and grew the...

The problem of ethical fading/failures is easy to understand and illustrate. Here ya go: Photo Credit: Paul Knowlton The...