It’s commonplace to see increasing real GDP as a measure of improved utility in society. But it’s less common to imagine an even better scenario of increasing real GDP and deflation. In such a situation, real incomes are increasing in a strong and sustainable fashion, as we’ll show here. The word ‘deflation’ itself conjures up

100% Pure Socialism and Capitalism each convey unstable long-term extremes. Raw socialism will snuff out productive growth and innovation as individual entrepreneurship gives way to reliance on big government, run by bureaucratic elites. It simply removes incentives to innovation. Raw Capitalism will produce powerful capital holders that naturally steer societal rules to their own benefit

The mainstream economics most of us learned in school is known as neoclassical economics, and it quite simply doesn’t explain human behavior. It’s all built on the 100% rational economic man – homo economicus. And well, people are regularly observed to be irrational/emotional. The recent surge in popularity of Behavioral Economics came about to fill the