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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 7h

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Harmony of Interests - Henry C. Carey and the American System: A Synthesis for the Political Economy Project

We do not need to invent a new paradigm. We must return to what has proven to work.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 7h

Carey understood something mainstream economists and politicians are only beginning to rediscover: that prosperity is not found in free trade but in free people and freedom requires the development of national productive powers not dependence on international banks and foreign monopolies.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 1d

Friedrich Schiller, Aesthetics and the Political Economy of Freedom

In an age drowning in metrics, propaganda and the politics of fear, we must return to first principles. How do free people remain free?

Beauty before freedom.

Freedom before power.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 2d

This moment calls for a return to purposeful national development. The same spirit that built the TVA, electrified rural America and launched the space program.

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Nuclear Power Is Dead. Long Live Nuclear Power.

The best time to start was yesterday. The next best time is today.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 2d

We traded engineering confidence for fear and national ambition went adrift.

Today, demand is surging. Our grid is strained. Industry is hollowed out. Electricity costs are rising. China and Russia are leading. We cannot pretend incremental policy adjustments will be enough.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 3d

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Why Railroad Rules

Where railroads thrive, society learns to think in terms of long-term transportation, investment, maintenance and coordination — the very virtues that sustain a republic.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 3d

A railroad unites regions into one productive organism. Grain from the plains, mining from the mountains and goods from factories all converge on the same arteries.

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#PoliticalEconomyProject #PoliticalEconomy #Infrastructure #Rail #AmericanSystem #IndustrialPolicy #PublicWorks

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 8d

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Mind-Bending Ideas from Edgar Allan Poe’s Theory of Everything

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand...

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 8d

Mind-Bending Ideas from Edgar Allan Poe’s Theory of Everything

With so many headlines hurling ideas about “A post truth world,” I think it is apt to always return to the pursuit of truth as the foundation for everything.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 9d

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America’s Infrastructure As a National Security Threat

Infrastructure isn’t just concrete and steel. It is the productive scaffolding of civilization.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 9d

Infrastructure isn’t just concrete and steel. It is the productive scaffolding of civilization. Either we rebuild it (through public financing) or we decay along with it.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 10d

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New Blog Post

Restoring the Republic’s Productive Power - Part 2

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 10d

Freedom is creation and production. To labor freely, to build, invent and improve, is to participate in the divine act of progress itself.

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#PoliticalEconomyProject, #ProductivePower, #FreeLabor, #AmericanSystem, #RestoringTheRepublic, #MoralEconomy

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 13d

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The Political Economy Project’s Weekly Roundup Highlighting the Powers of Production

What was, what is and what can be...

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 13d

The Political Economy Project’s Weekly Roundup Highlighting the Powers of Production

Following the latest essay on the equation S′ / (C + V), what does it looks like when the productive power of labor is moving in the right direction…or not.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 14d

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Restoring the Republic’s Productive Power

From a Consumer Economy to a Producer NationFor decades economic policy has treated consumption as the engine of prosperity. Every stimulus, every boom and bust, and every political promise has turned...

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 14d

Restoring the Republic’s Productive Power

True prosperity is not measured by how much we consume but by how much we create. The wealth of a nation is the cumulative power of its citizens to improve the world around them.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 15d

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Lincoln on Innovation, Labor and the Moral Purpose of Progress

Lincoln’s economic philosophy rested on what he called “free labor” or the belief that all honest work deserves dignity, opportunity and reward. He viewed invention and labor not as opposing forces bu...

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 15d

Lincoln on Innovation, Labor and the Moral Purpose of Progress

Lincoln’s goal was not merely to expand industry but to ensure that invention elevated all people. Progress without justice, he believed, leads only to new forms of servitude.

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 15d

This weekend is being advertised as the largest protest in American history.

Indivisible’s No Kings nationwide mobilization is impressive.

Yet I’m seeing no specific demands and no next steps in organizing for the days, weeks and months after Saturday.

What am I missing?

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 16d

"Stable trade relations require a pro-worker agenda at home and overseas, which Trump is leading us away from," said EPI's @ahecon.bsky.social at a National Association of Business Economists panel this morning.

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The U.S. approach to globalization has gone from bad to worse under Trump: How to construct a progressive policy agenda instead

Globalization has created a challenging landscape for U.S. workers. Led by corporate interests, U.S. trade agreements from NAFTA onward have made matters worse rather than improving them. To counter t...

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 22d

Did you know that over 1M home care workers could lose their overtime pay because of Trump?

The good news: some states are already stepping in to prevent these pay cuts.

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Overtime pay: State solutions to the U.S. worker rights crisis

What does current federal law say about overtime pay? The overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provide protections to most hourly workers and many low-salaried workers, guarantee...

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 16d

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Why England Fought for Free Trade Only After It Got Rich

Friedrich List and the Lost Art of National Strategy

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Evan Matthew Papp @evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social · 16d

True Wealth Is the Power to Create, Not the Possession of Things

A nation that prizes cheap imports over productive strength sacrifices its future for convenience. Power matters more than wealth because power renews wealth.

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