Andersen Design Economic Evolution Discourse

  Does economic development rule the people, or serve the people? Let Freedom Ring! photo by Yves Monrique-unsplash In the 1980’s when Burton A Weisbrod first published  The NonProfit Economy , he wrote that the US economy was composed of three sectors, public, private, and nonprofit, intended to operate independently, each filling a unique function, which the others did not, but in the 1980’s, they were already merging and adapting in ways not ethically clean. In 1997 Weisbrod published a paper titled  The future of the nonprofit sector: Its entwining with private enterprise and government . Today In Maine the entwining is wide, deep and complete, concentrating power in the interests of a small circle of associates wielding wealth redistribution as it’s instrument, branding itself as networking and celebratory public private relationships. The conflation of the public, private, and non-profit sectors is a top down system. over riding local power where in public and priva...

Down with the Tower to Liberate Diversity ! mitya-ivanov unsplash With the entire world is in a state of transition, I decided to break with my better judgement and to reach out to one of the units of economic development in Maine’s overbearingly centralized economy. I don’t know if it was because I have been reading many articles about money on Medium, or because of it being a time when the old towers of power are in precarious standing that I felt more emboldened than before to speak truth to power. Between the lines the of polite conversation, there was a current of hostility. Central management is aware that I write truthfully of the long history of corrupt practices in Maine’s centrally managed economy . A centrally managed economy uses wealth redistribution as a system of control. Open criticism of the system is neither expected nor anticipated. There is no direct line to be drawn between the undercurrent and the fact that I am a critic of the system but there are ...