The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.