Politics and Economics

The road to perdition for the United States, the Last, Best Hope of Earth, is paved with the poverty of our current political discourse. The discourse is composed of politics without economics. And when economics is included, the content is meager indeed. We have to reach the stage at which the political discourse is rich with good economics—ideally throughout the world, but let us start with the United States. This chapter is divided into three parts: Section 1 gives a look at what is being done; Section 2 gives a look at the hidden, widening fault line that exists in society today; Section 3 gives a look at what ought to be done. Concordian economics helps.