Charles Hugh Smith
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com
Of Two Minds Essentials
An Of Two Minds Essentialsm is a sharply focused discussion of one of the core issues of our era. While each is a stand-alone book, the Essentialssm shed light on the new socio-economic era we are entering. The Essentials are compact (less than 30,000 words) and affordable (less than $4 for ebooks and less than $9 for print editions).
Books
- Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform
- A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful
- Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy
- The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education
- Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change
- Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It
- An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times
- Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
youtube Charles H Smith - A summary of my work: two questions
oftwominds.com/blogsept16 Why the Deep State Is Dumping Hillary - September 26, 2016
In my view, the current era of U.S. history shares parallels with the Roman era of A.D. 9 and beyond, when a planned expansionist invasion of the Danube region in central Europe led to military defeats and insurgencies that took years of patient warfighting and diplomacy to quell.
Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
October 30, 2009
by Charles Hugh Smith
ISBN-10: 1449563449
ISBN-13: 978-1449563448
oftwominds.com/blogjan17 January 23, 2017 - The Collapse of the Left
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com Monday, January 23, 2017 - The Protected, Privileged Establishment vs. The Working Class
www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly17/ We Need a Social Economy, Not a Hyper-Financialized Economy - July 28, 2017
Why is the community economy so important? The community economy is first and foremost the engine of social capital, which is the source of opportunity and widely distributed wealth.
...Corporations cannot replace communities for the simple reason each organization has different purposes and goals. The sole purpose and goal of a corporation is to expand capital and profits, for if it fails to do so, it falters and expires.
The purpose of a community is to preserve and protect a specific locale by nurturing social solidarity: the sense of sharing a purpose with others, of belonging to a community that is capable of concerted, collective action on the behalf of its members and its locale.
Political scientist Robert Putnam has described this structure as a web of horizontal social networks. Unlike corporations and the state, community economies are horizontal networks, i.e. networks of peers connected by overlapping memberships and interests.
It is not accidental that the current system of hierarchical corporations, banks and the state increases inequality and erodes the community economy: the only possible output of low social capital is rising inequality.
oftwominds.com/blogoct17 Why Is Bitcoin a Big Deal? - October 31, 2017
To grasp the significance of these four characteristics, we have to go back to the early history of modern capitalism. My longstanding recommendation is to start with Fernand Braudel’s 3-volume history, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century:
The Structures of Everyday Life (Volume 1)
The Wheels of Commerce (Volume 2)
The Perspective of the World (Volume 3)