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The Popular Capitalist View, No. 16: Where Once Was Capitalism by Carl Peter Klapper
Time was when your family could make something or buy the somethings your neighbors made, hang a sign on the front of your house and enough neighbors and visitors would walk by and step into your mom-and-pop store that you could make a decent living being a “merchant”.
The Three Most Important Things in Transportation – Carl Peter Klapper
The Popular Capitalist View
A key part of the Popular Capitalist program is to reduce the cost of living. A lower cost of providing the necessities puts the rudimentary task of paying the cost of sovereignty more easily within the reach of the political economies of regions with modest resources. This allows those political economies and thus most political economies to offer its citizens opportunities to reach beyond mere survival and build capital that will benefit their communities for years to come. Also, a lower cost of the living beyond survival makes those efforts at building capital more attainable.
Property Taxes and Educational Reform in New Jersey – Carl Peter Klapper
The Popular Capitalist View The election of the next New Jersey Governor is fast upon us with only one real issue being addressed, that of property taxes and the public… Read more
A Corporation is not A Person, A Home is not An Investment – Carl Peter Klapper
The Popular Capitalist View There is a lot of confusion in our business world about what is or is not personal which seems, to this observer, designed to misplace our… Read more
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
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
