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'''In recent years''' binary economics has been developed to cover the use of interest-free loans for the development and spreading of all forms of productive capacity.<ref>[http://binaryeconomics.net/uses-of-interest-free-loans/ Binary economics web site.]</ref> Some examples of these are micro-finance (e.g. poor Bangladeshi women), tidal barrages for clean electricity generation, public capital projects such as bridges, hospitals, roads, and interest-free loans for students. Through its capacity to foster fairness and justice in economic matters while ensuring efficiency through market principles, binary economics is of appeal to all cultures and major faiths. | '''In recent years''' binary economics has been developed to cover the use of interest-free loans for the development and spreading of all forms of productive capacity.<ref>[http://binaryeconomics.net/uses-of-interest-free-loans/ Binary economics web site.]</ref> Some examples of these are micro-finance (e.g. poor Bangladeshi women), tidal barrages for clean electricity generation, public capital projects such as bridges, hospitals, roads, and interest-free loans for students. Through its capacity to foster fairness and justice in economic matters while ensuring efficiency through market principles, binary economics is of appeal to all cultures and major faiths. | ||
== A new paradigm == | |||
The differences between the views of society based on binary economics and those of conventional/orthodox/neoclassical, etc., economics, warrants regarding binary economics to be an entirely new paradigm of economic thought. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 06:37, 3 August 2007
Binary economics asks two basic questions: “Who or what creates wealth, and, why are there so few capitalists in capitalist[1] societies?”[2]
In investigating these questions, binary economics provides a new way of approaching economic reality. Asking the first question, it is observed that there are two ways of earning a living[3] — working through one’s labour and working through one’s capital assets. In dealing with the second question, binary economics discloses institutional obstacles to universal ownership of income generating capital assets.
Most of the criticism from professional economists arise from the underlying paradigmic difference between mainstream economics and binary economics[4] It is claimed, however, that the paradigm forming the basis of mainstream economics cannot adequately reflect modern economic realities. One of the most important changes in economic reality is the labour/capital ratio as inputs to wealth producing economic processes.[5]
Origins
Like many other heterodox economic theories, binary economics had its origins in the 1930s when capitalism failed to live up to its promises to deliver a continually improving standard of living. Louis Orth Kelso wanted to know why a great, and growing, capacity to produce went hand in hand with millions of people unable to find jobs and earn enough to buy what could be produced? Finding no explanation in existing economic and business literature, Kelso had to do his own analysis. The first result of his findings was a manuscript, The Fallacy of Full Employment written in the early 1940s. A more comprehensive presentation, The Capitalist Manifesto [6]was published in 1958. In essence, Kelso's insight was that Capitalism had not yet come to terms with the long-term effects of the industrial revolution in squeezing the labour content out of production in favour of increasing capital input.[7]
In recent years binary economics has been developed to cover the use of interest-free loans for the development and spreading of all forms of productive capacity.[8] Some examples of these are micro-finance (e.g. poor Bangladeshi women), tidal barrages for clean electricity generation, public capital projects such as bridges, hospitals, roads, and interest-free loans for students. Through its capacity to foster fairness and justice in economic matters while ensuring efficiency through market principles, binary economics is of appeal to all cultures and major faiths.
A new paradigm
The differences between the views of society based on binary economics and those of conventional/orthodox/neoclassical, etc., economics, warrants regarding binary economics to be an entirely new paradigm of economic thought.
References
- ↑ Capitalist, as a person, is one who derives a substantial income from the ownership of income generating assets. Owning stocks and shares is one means of living on income from capital.
- ↑ James S. Albus, Peoples' Capitalism--The Economics of The Robot Revolution (1976)
- ↑ Income:- The flow of wages, interest payments, dividends, and other receipts accruing to an individual or nation. (Samuelson and Nordhaus, Economics (1989).
- ↑ Ashford and Shakespeare, Binary Economics—The New Paradigm (1999).
- ↑ Binary Productiveness in Ashford and Shakespeare (1999).
- ↑ Not to be confused with the same title by Andrew Bernstein.
- ↑ A Brief History of Binary Economics in Ashford and Shakespeare.
- ↑ Binary economics web site.