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Economics Debunked - Dates to be Announced

Confusing economic language limits our ability to understand the many challenges that confront society at all levels, from federal to municipal governance, to big versus small business practices, and national versus international trade agreements. Furthermore, the media frequently presents an economic language that appears simple, but which has effected social changes that, with hind sight, have often achieved at best ambivalent or questionable results.

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Banks Skanks - Dates to be Announced.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered" (Thomas Jefferson). Is Jefferson correct? If so, why were banks bailed out at the expense of government coffers? 'Banks Skanks' critically examines the social consequences of banks and debt.

‘Economics Debunked’ and its companion course, 'Banks Skanks' are an introduction to economic language and critical thinking skills that can help the concerned individual pierce the veil of economic jargon and strengthen broad economic discernment, argument and action. This web page, Economics Demystified, supports and interacts with both Economics Debunked and Banks Skanks, but is not the courses.

Is Economics:

... the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, 'house') + νόμος (nomos, 'custom' or 'law'), hence "rules of the house(hold)". Current economic models emerged from the broader field of political economy. A primary stimulus for the development of modern economics was the desire to use anempirical approach more akin to the physical sciences (Wikipedia)?

Or is Economics:

... n. pl. (usually treated as sing.). Also (earlier)☥oe- [f. economic + -s, orig. after L. oeconomica, Gk. ta oikonomika, a treatise by Aristotle.] ☥1a (A treatise on) household management. Cf. economic n. l16-l18. b The management of private or domestic finances; pecuniary position, monetary matters. m19. 2 The branch of knowledge that deals with the production and distribution of wealth in theory and practice; the application of this discipline to a particular sphere; the condition of a State etc. as regards material prosperity; the financial considerations attaching to a particular activity, commodity, etc. l18 (Oxford Dictionary of the English Language)?

If these definitions don't quite help your understanding of the mechanics of economics in thought and action, and you would like to begin to bring an end to the confusion, then Economics Debunked and Banks Skanks are for you.

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