I am a Baby Boomer, and this is the story of how my generation let the great...
Featuring The Maine Capital Corporation of 1976 Established in the wake of a newly centralized United States Economy, Legal status disclosure: This is an opinion of a layperson. independent researcher...
View ArticleYes We Can! The SBIR and STTR Grants for American Small Business
Does economic development rule the people, or serve the people? In the 1980’s when Burton A Weisbrod first published The NonProfit Economy, he wrote that the US economy was composed of three sectors,...
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A Voice from the People in Maine’s Pine Tree Zone Debate Who Do you Think You ARE! ? photo by Mackenzie Andersen “Who do you think you are?”, he said, as though I needed to be granted permission from...
View ArticleThe Uselessness of Centralized Economic Development and the Hope of UBI
In my home town on the rural coast of Maine, we once had an economic development council, but it was little more than a public-private consortium with a license to spend the public’s money in the...
View ArticleHow I Became an Independent Researcher of The Tangled Net Of Economic...
Rarely do I find myself in a state of seemingly unattached free-form physical depression of the sort that makes one’s energy lethargic and body heavy as I have been feeling over the last two days, as I...
View ArticleLewis Mumford, A Thinker for the Ages Tells a Tale Of Cities Since the Middle...
The Medieval Religiously Centered City My Dad often spoke about his admiration for Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 — January 26, 1990) but I had never read Mumford and so when I saw a paper in my email...
View ArticleWhat is the Meaning of “Capitalism” and Other Out-Moded Terms?
The true history of eleventh-century civilization is a source of inspiration for contemporary apocalypse dramas. After five centuries of living in danger and uncertainty, walls were built around the...
View ArticleWhat Do Lessons from the Industrial Revolution Have to Tell Us Today?
A historical reversal of direction underway? The nineteenth-century influenced the social-political and economic development of human life on earth in vibrant living color. Not! The nineteenth-century...
View ArticleThe Archaic Life of Fishermen Confronts the Progressives of the Windmill...
Quality rural lifestyles threatened by the advancing megalopolis In my hometown of Boothbay, Maine, a consortium of interests, anchored in the public-private state, are installing the first floating...
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