Tag Archives: Carl Peter Klapper
Economics of Medicine – Carl Peter Klapper
The Popular Capitalist View There seem to be some persistent and wrong assumptions about policy issues that are used to frame positions and prescriptions such as mine, particularly in the… Read more
Calling the Doctors Home ~ C. P. Klapper
From the board rooms From the seats of power In the towers of ivory and gold Let us call the doctors home Let us call the doctors home
Strange Neighbors ~ C. P. Klapper
It happened one dark night Two ships passing Unknown to each other One calls another The third unknown and unknowing To both and wary In the urban sea Strange neighbors… Read more
“The Wizard of Wall Street” ~ C. P. Klapper
“The Wizard of Wall Street” Is what he said he was And so we donned the rose-colored glasses And entered a ruby state of mind Thinking ourselves rich Or was… Read more
Fatherly Governance – Carl Peter Klapper
The Popular Capitalist View “Like as a father pities his children”, says the Psalmist, “so the Lord has mercy on those that fear him.” In this scripture and other sacred… Read more
Populism v. Popularity – Carl Peter Klapper
The Popular Capitalist View A frequent derogatory stereotype of the populists, especially of the more prominent ones, is of a demagogue, of someone appealing to the basest forms of popular… Read more
The Public Interest – Carl Peter Klapper
The Popular Capitalist View Recent actions and initiatives, particularly on the federal level, have brought up the issue of how far the public interest extends and what the scope and… Read more
Representation Amendment – Carl Peter Klapper
The Popular Capitalist View With the recent announcement of the retirement of Justice Souter from the Supreme Court and the new and awkward position of Lieutenant Governor for the State… Read more
The Popular Capitalist View – Carl Peter Klapper
Being also a poet of some accomplishment, I have on occasion used verse to express my political and economic views. The following is one such poem, with which I decry… Read more
The Popular Capitalist View – Carl Peter Klapper
Gubernatorial Platform Having discussed in my previous columns the place of popular capitalism in the political world, and that being a world of abstractions and symbols if not ideas, it… Read more
