According to the US Department of Health & Human Services, “Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.” Thus, there is a spectrum of attributes that characterize SDOH, […]
I recently read Ben Wiker’s treatise 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others that Didn’t Help (Regnery, 2008). He chronicles the thoughts, writings, and impacts of Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, John Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Vladimir Lenin, Margaret Sanger, Simon Freud, Margaret Mead, Adolph Hitler and Alfred Kinsey. Often, these luminaries’ hallmark books […]
Emily 2.0 has been rapidly evolving. The next release will be my digital twin, hence it will be renamed Bill 3.0. The lovely young woman that embodied Emily’s persona will be replaced with the grumpy old man that is me. This is truly unfortunate but the twin construct will not otherwise work. Bill 3.0 will […]
There are two long-standing debates in economics that fundamentally affect how one views the challenges our society faces. The two sides of the first debate are often associated with Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman on one side and John Maynard Keynes and Karl Polanyi on the other. Wapshott (2011) and Delong (2022) elaborate this debate […]
We seem culturally opposed to long-term solutions. Our healthcare system is dramatically underperforming, as is our education system. Perhaps an infusion of targeted incentives would fix things. It hasn’t and won’t. The consequences of climate change and global warming include fires, storms and flooding that are massively destructive. We provide billions of dollars in disaster […]
