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Envisages a population of collaborators—some with a knack for recovering the story of lost or overlooked ideas; others with a knack for visioning a better future; and all bent towards cyclically radiating the light of timely ideas in markets, schools, and town halls.

Proposes that a Calculus of Variations analogous to that which interested the early Husserl is to replace the isolation of individuals and disciplines and lead to genuine progress and economic justice. The reach beyond effete academic isolation implies that adult growth is viewed normatively as accelerating.

Presents an introduction to the basis of economic analysis that is absent from academic and political discourse, and thus absent from economic practice. The second part identifies collaboration that could increase the probabilities of sane economics becoming a part of discourse and practice.

In Randomness, Statistics, and Emergence, McShane illustrates how classical and statistical procedures complement one another. One of the conclusions he draws in Randomness is that emergence and evolution are explained in terms of probabilities of emergence and probabilities of survival of recurrence-schemes. To arrive at a principle of emergence, McShane focuses on actual procedures of empirical investigators and the type of explanation they seek. Those doing the relevant sciences—biophysics and biochemistry are his focus in the last four chapters—can verify objective randomness and emergence by attending to their performance. McShane also makes beginnings in heuristics of biological and scientific growth and development. The first edition of this book was first published in 1970. The second edition includes a second preface, “The Riverrun to God,” written by McShane in the fall of 2012. It also includes an editor’s introduction written by Terrance Quinn, author of Invitation to Generalized Empirical Method in Philosophy and Science and The (Pre-) Dawning of Functional Specialization in Physics.

Offers an introductory reach for economic wisdom as well as an explosive, yet pragmatic, push past Keynesian theories and postmodernism. The emergence of enlightened economics will gradually replace present disorder and confusion with innovative democracy and glocal vision.

Studies the emergence of language, both in individuals and in civilization. Using Helen Keller as inspiration and illustration, the author points to how language emerges with a 'Big Bang' of human creativity and speech in each of us. The result is a new and radical view of language.

This is a critical attack on Gregory Mankiw's acclaimed first year economics text, Principles of Macroeconomics. Th authors take Mankiw to task both for datedness of methodology and for triviality of content. Mankiw's book, of course, is representative of the present culture of irrelevant economic education. The remedy to this, spelled out in Beyond Establishment Economics, lies in a fresh understanding of the rhythms of production. That realistic understanding shifts the focus of interest away from establishment illusions regarding finance and stock-trading, and highlights the centrality of local creativities and intelligent credit structures.