Gary D Lynne
@metaeconomics.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln --- working to bring the Ethic back into view in economics. It is not only about the Incentive. See https://www.metaeconomics.info/project-of-metaeconomics
The Tyranny of Merit book by Philosopher Michael Sandel is worth a read... pointing to how the meritocratic hubris at the top and the resentment at the bottom of the income and wealth ladder is a main driver in the current political chaos... see substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Tyranny of Merit — Through the DIT Lens
--what Michael Sandel gets right about Ego Merit, and what DIT adds as Empathy Merit on the way to finding the common good
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September 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
The Tyranny of Merit book by Philosopher Michael Sandel is worth a read... pointing to how the meritocratic hubris at the top and the resentment at the bottom of the income and wealth ladder is a main driver in the current political chaos... see substack.com/home/post/p-...
The current assault by the Administration on our public lands, including our national parks reflects the neoliberal and libertarian economics claim that Free Market Environmentalism will cure all... the case study in Chile tells a different story.. see metaeconomics.substack.com/p/water-mark...
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August 25, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The current assault by the Administration on our public lands, including our national parks reflects the neoliberal and libertarian economics claim that Free Market Environmentalism will cure all... the case study in Chile tells a different story.. see metaeconomics.substack.com/p/water-mark...
House Leader Johnson claims Democrats are turning to Communism. Rep McGovern (D-MA) claims Republicans are turning to Fascism, which does seem to have some fact content. The really important question: Toward "Whatism" should Americans aim? Check it out here... substack.com/home/post/p-...
It’s Communism! It’s Fascism! It’s—Whatism? (Brief)
The answer is not either extreme. America needs an evidence-based, dual-interest constitutional democracy.
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July 26, 2026 at 3:10 AM
House Leader Johnson claims Democrats are turning to Communism. Rep McGovern (D-MA) claims Republicans are turning to Fascism, which does seem to have some fact content. The really important question: Toward "Whatism" should Americans aim? Check it out here... substack.com/home/post/p-...
Anyone else concerned about the current assault on our public lands and the agencies that manage said lands? Well, perhaps you should be? See open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
Assaulting Public Lands: The Old Fallacy Behind a New Attack
Why markets alone cannot protect land, water, wildlife, and the public interest
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July 19, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Anyone else concerned about the current assault on our public lands and the agencies that manage said lands? Well, perhaps you should be? See open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
Count on a selective "fact check" from the MAGA Owner of CBS, like in the upcoming "60 MAGA Minutes" programming for fall. The model here is Orban-Hungary... the Fidesz Faction (Hungary's MAGA) now owns and controls all the media.
Trump BS speech tonight:
NBC: Nope
ABC: Nope
CBS: “We will fact-check it later”
NBC: Nope
ABC: Nope
CBS: “We will fact-check it later”
July 16, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Count on a selective "fact check" from the MAGA Owner of CBS, like in the upcoming "60 MAGA Minutes" programming for fall. The model here is Orban-Hungary... the Fidesz Faction (Hungary's MAGA) now owns and controls all the media.
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ABC is laying groundwork to fight FCC on constitutional grounds while Trump destroys constitutional documents (put in cases that will allow damage), and CNN is reporting.
The world is watching.
edition.cnn.com/2026/05/28/m...
The world is watching.
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ABC accuses Trump’s FCC of ‘unconstitutional retaliation’ in station license fight | CNN Business
ABC is laying the groundwork for a landmark First Amendment fight.
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July 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
ABC is laying groundwork to fight FCC on constitutional grounds while Trump destroys constitutional documents (put in cases that will allow damage), and CNN is reporting.
The world is watching.
edition.cnn.com/2026/05/28/m...
The world is watching.
edition.cnn.com/2026/05/28/m...
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ABC: We will not air Trump’s speech tonight
NBC: We will not air Trump’s speech tonight
CBS: [Bari Weiss -spits Trump’s balls out]- It will be our honor to mislead the public on behalf of Mein Trumpf… I mean My Trump
NBC: We will not air Trump’s speech tonight
CBS: [Bari Weiss -spits Trump’s balls out]- It will be our honor to mislead the public on behalf of Mein Trumpf… I mean My Trump
July 16, 2026 at 10:25 PM
ABC: We will not air Trump’s speech tonight
NBC: We will not air Trump’s speech tonight
CBS: [Bari Weiss -spits Trump’s balls out]- It will be our honor to mislead the public on behalf of Mein Trumpf… I mean My Trump
NBC: We will not air Trump’s speech tonight
CBS: [Bari Weiss -spits Trump’s balls out]- It will be our honor to mislead the public on behalf of Mein Trumpf… I mean My Trump
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Bravo NBC and ABC! As our country descends deeper into authoritarian fascism — recognizing the danger that Trump's desperation represents to the republic and the future of democracy, NBC and ABC has decided not to air the serial lying psychopath's national address this evening.
July 16, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Bravo NBC and ABC! As our country descends deeper into authoritarian fascism — recognizing the danger that Trump's desperation represents to the republic and the future of democracy, NBC and ABC has decided not to air the serial lying psychopath's national address this evening.
The continued use of Big Lie Political Technology (outrageous claims repeated over and over to brainwash) by the current Administration, more coming tonight July 16, stirred an update of my earlier Substack... get inoculated and inoculate your friends... substack.com/home/post/p-...
Ban Big Lie Political Technology? Ban BLPT?
Seems the thing to do Right now is to ban anything associated with acronyms like DEI, LGBTQ, USAID, DE ... so how about adding BLPT to the list?
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July 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
The continued use of Big Lie Political Technology (outrageous claims repeated over and over to brainwash) by the current Administration, more coming tonight July 16, stirred an update of my earlier Substack... get inoculated and inoculate your friends... substack.com/home/post/p-...
Lot of talk about the Bogeyman communism, which is an economy where public property dominates. Problem is: We need some public property... like in the case of water, and the public property in the hydrologic system that produces our fresh water... that kind of "communism" is good...see Substack...
July 14, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Lot of talk about the Bogeyman communism, which is an economy where public property dominates. Problem is: We need some public property... like in the case of water, and the public property in the hydrologic system that produces our fresh water... that kind of "communism" is good...see Substack...
Lot of talk about Socialism. How about the other end of the continuum, as in Scroogism, as in economically inefficient and socially destabilizing, the extreme pursuit of private gain weakens the competitive, ethical, ecological, and political foundations for prosperity...that is the real problem.
July 14, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Lot of talk about Socialism. How about the other end of the continuum, as in Scroogism, as in economically inefficient and socially destabilizing, the extreme pursuit of private gain weakens the competitive, ethical, ecological, and political foundations for prosperity...that is the real problem.
“… a deeper rot festers in the American soul: a callousness toward our neighbors, a me-first selfishness, a relentless focus on ‘getting mine’ even if it leaves others behind. ...
June 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
“… a deeper rot festers in the American soul: a callousness toward our neighbors, a me-first selfishness, a relentless focus on ‘getting mine’ even if it leaves others behind. ...
The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden just published the Democracy Report 2026. The American Democracy is going down fast, in an unprecedented assault. The links to the report are on now in the Substack... it is metaeconomics.substack.com/p/hungarys-f...
Hungary’s Frog Finally Jumped
--- but only after Democracy was nearly boiled away
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May 3, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden just published the Democracy Report 2026. The American Democracy is going down fast, in an unprecedented assault. The links to the report are on now in the Substack... it is metaeconomics.substack.com/p/hungarys-f...
Yes. So, Extreme Judaic Religionists (claiming that God gave them most of the Middle East as laid down in the Torah) goading Extreme Christian Nationalists (Trump, Hegseth, Johnson) to go to war with Extreme Islamic Religionists. What could possibly go wrong.
And here we have it. Israel was the goad and Trump's advisors were not the adults we needed.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran
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April 18, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Yes. So, Extreme Judaic Religionists (claiming that God gave them most of the Middle East as laid down in the Torah) goading Extreme Christian Nationalists (Trump, Hegseth, Johnson) to go to war with Extreme Islamic Religionists. What could possibly go wrong.
And, on the American Frog's needing to jump out now... have started adding a Podcast Voiceover to each Substack... so, subscribe to the Substack App (from Substack.com) and one can listen to my Posts on a phone/tablet... see substack.com/home/post/p-...
Hungary’s Frog Finally Jumped
--- but only after Democracy was nearly boiled away
substack.com
April 18, 2026 at 9:46 PM
And, on the American Frog's needing to jump out now... have started adding a Podcast Voiceover to each Substack... so, subscribe to the Substack App (from Substack.com) and one can listen to my Posts on a phone/tablet... see substack.com/home/post/p-...
So, the frogs finally jumped out of the pot that has been slowly but surely working toward totally neutralizing Hungarian Democracy. On April 16, 2026, the Orban-Autocracy was voted out. Was it soon enough? See substack.com/home/post/p-...
Hungary’s Frog Finally Jumped
--- but only after Democracy was nearly boiled away
substack.com
April 18, 2026 at 3:26 AM
So, the frogs finally jumped out of the pot that has been slowly but surely working toward totally neutralizing Hungarian Democracy. On April 16, 2026, the Orban-Autocracy was voted out. Was it soon enough? See substack.com/home/post/p-...
Wondering why the Iran negotiations are going nowhere? Well, because the 5-religious factions --- 3 Islam, 1 Judaic, 2 Christian --- are each dug in to have it their way, period. For more understanding of why the talk, talk, talk is failing, see... metaeconomics.substack.com/p/sacred-war...
Sacred Wars on a Shared Spaceship: The Iran Conflict
Why Bombs Cannot Win a War Over the Profane & Sacred Balance
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April 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Wondering why the Iran negotiations are going nowhere? Well, because the 5-religious factions --- 3 Islam, 1 Judaic, 2 Christian --- are each dug in to have it their way, period. For more understanding of why the talk, talk, talk is failing, see... metaeconomics.substack.com/p/sacred-war...
So, this Israel Jewish/US Christian coalition of two extreme religious factions working to take down Islamic religious factions, using bombs rather than talk, talk, ... well, what could go wrong, I asked myself (and Claude Anthropic), and here we are... metaeconomics.substack.com/p/sacred-war...
Sacred Wars on a Shared Spaceship
Why Bombs Cannot Win a War Over the Profane & Sacred Balance
metaeconomics.substack.com
March 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
So, this Israel Jewish/US Christian coalition of two extreme religious factions working to take down Islamic religious factions, using bombs rather than talk, talk, ... well, what could go wrong, I asked myself (and Claude Anthropic), and here we are... metaeconomics.substack.com/p/sacred-war...
So, I have been paying attention to "the Don" and loyalists "reporting" in the reasons for the Iran War, and, also the video game laced presentations of what is actually going on... it reminds me of my earlier Substack... metaeconomics.substack.com/p/on-bullshi...
On Bullshit
--- being BS is being used to convince Americans to move to a rule of men vertical power patrimony, the book by moral philosopher Harry G Frankfurt On Bullshit should be required reading
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March 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM
So, I have been paying attention to "the Don" and loyalists "reporting" in the reasons for the Iran War, and, also the video game laced presentations of what is actually going on... it reminds me of my earlier Substack... metaeconomics.substack.com/p/on-bullshi...
Got to thinking about how effective 12th-15th century techniques (the Autocrat "bombing" the Autocrat, as in the Israel-US vs Iran "war") will be in the 21st Century... well... see substack.com/@metaeconomi...
MetaEconGary (@metaeconomics)
Metaeconomics suggests that going back to the 15th century way to resolve global conflicts is, well, out-of-date. It never did work. So, why do we think it will work now? Just asking…and, oh, we nee...
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March 12, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Got to thinking about how effective 12th-15th century techniques (the Autocrat "bombing" the Autocrat, as in the Israel-US vs Iran "war") will be in the 21st Century... well... see substack.com/@metaeconomi...
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In case you missed it…here’s the facts-only version of SOTU
February 26, 2026 at 4:32 AM
In case you missed it…here’s the facts-only version of SOTU
Total disregard for the truth for the purpose of installing a vertical rule of law power system came through clear in the State of the Union speech tonight. It is dangerous, as a Democracy runs on truth, with fact-content. Autocracy runs on the bullshit of made-up "truth." Enough with the BS.
February 25, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Total disregard for the truth for the purpose of installing a vertical rule of law power system came through clear in the State of the Union speech tonight. It is dangerous, as a Democracy runs on truth, with fact-content. Autocracy runs on the bullshit of made-up "truth." Enough with the BS.
So, why were the American Athletes jeered and booed upon entry to the 2026 Winter Olympics? Perhaps it was the VPs Munich speech in February 2025? What think? See substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why Were Americans Booed in Milan?
Some Metaeconomic reflections on free speech, disinformation, and Europe’s long memory
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February 8, 2026 at 3:08 AM
So, why were the American Athletes jeered and booed upon entry to the 2026 Winter Olympics? Perhaps it was the VPs Munich speech in February 2025? What think? See substack.com/home/post/p-...
So, just unsubscribed from the Washington Post. Enough. Only 17-20% of Americans support the MAGA New Right Anti-Democracy movement: Am sure that 17-20% will be more than willing to subscribe to and support the new Washington MAGA Post.
February 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
So, just unsubscribed from the Washington Post. Enough. Only 17-20% of Americans support the MAGA New Right Anti-Democracy movement: Am sure that 17-20% will be more than willing to subscribe to and support the new Washington MAGA Post.
The David Brooks "Time to Say Goodbye" column yesterday stirred my latest Substack. Brooks points to the Market failure to do enough to help Americans form a "unifying national narrative." Yes, indeed --- see substack.com/home/post/p-...
On the Need for a Unifying National Narrative
Or, in Dual Interest Theory (DIT) terms: Need for a unifying shared-with-the-other interest.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The David Brooks "Time to Say Goodbye" column yesterday stirred my latest Substack. Brooks points to the Market failure to do enough to help Americans form a "unifying national narrative." Yes, indeed --- see substack.com/home/post/p-...