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
So, economics has drifted away from the roots in moral philosophy... time to bring it back, bring ethics back into play to temper incentive... substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Project of Metaeconomics: Bringing Ethics Back to Economics
Modern economics is facing a crisis of meaning, having moved away from moral philosophy. It is time to bring it back.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So, economics has drifted away from the roots in moral philosophy... time to bring it back, bring ethics back into play to temper incentive... substack.com/home/post/p-...
Ever wondered about the fact content of the political claims coming from the Extreme Left to Extreme Right? Well, the research suggests the Center-Left is the most connected to serious and systematic inquiry in the sciences & humanities --- empirical fact ... see substack.com/home/post/p-...
When Evidence Meets Ideology: What Research Says About Today’s Political Divide
Been wondering about the fact content of political and religious claims since I was 10-years old, listening to conversations and debates in the family and community. And, ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Ever wondered about the fact content of the political claims coming from the Extreme Left to Extreme Right? Well, the research suggests the Center-Left is the most connected to serious and systematic inquiry in the sciences & humanities --- empirical fact ... see substack.com/home/post/p-...
A must see: The Nuremberg movie. Two points: 1) Need an International Court of Justice to reel in rogue Nations and Autocrats 2) Never put a narcissist into a position of political and/or military power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvAy...
NUREMBERG | Official Trailer #1 (2025)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics
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November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A must see: The Nuremberg movie. Two points: 1) Need an International Court of Justice to reel in rogue Nations and Autocrats 2) Never put a narcissist into a position of political and/or military power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvAy...
Hearing Conservative acquaintances claiming the NYC Mayor Mamdani is a communist? Seriously? Anyway, decided to explore the terrain a bit.. here 'tis... metaeconomics.substack.com/p/mamdanis-e...
Mamdani’s Economics: A DIT-Framed Reality Check
Forget the “communist” noise.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Hearing Conservative acquaintances claiming the NYC Mayor Mamdani is a communist? Seriously? Anyway, decided to explore the terrain a bit.. here 'tis... metaeconomics.substack.com/p/mamdanis-e...
The recent Government shutdown made clear the real reason for it: The total disregard for the truth that the Big Beautiful Bill just continues to make The Plague of Inequality ever worse. See open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
The Big Ego-Interest Bill: A New Chapter in the Plague of Inequality
Why “Big Beautiful Bill” Is Just the Latest Mask of an Ancient Disease
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November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The recent Government shutdown made clear the real reason for it: The total disregard for the truth that the Big Beautiful Bill just continues to make The Plague of Inequality ever worse. See open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
So, my latest Substack was stirred by the recent question: Would Elon Musk Work Harder for $1 Trillion Than $1 Billion? Well, likely not: See metaeconomics.substack.com/p/too-much-i...
Too Much Inequality? Time to Move Toward Optimal Inequality
Metaeconomic take on Extreme Inequality inspired by Adam Smith and made sense with Dual Interest Theory
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November 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So, my latest Substack was stirred by the recent question: Would Elon Musk Work Harder for $1 Trillion Than $1 Billion? Well, likely not: See metaeconomics.substack.com/p/too-much-i...
Government shutdown, a stalemate between Republican Scroogists and Democrat(ic) Socialists. What do? Well, use DIT in Metaeconomics to find an empirical, science & humanities based research effort based answer, rather than continual spates over ideology ... see substack.com/home/post/p-...
Government Shutdown by Standoff: Republican Scroogist vs Democrat(ic) Socialist
… resolved only by empathy-with going in every direction
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November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Government shutdown, a stalemate between Republican Scroogists and Democrat(ic) Socialists. What do? Well, use DIT in Metaeconomics to find an empirical, science & humanities based research effort based answer, rather than continual spates over ideology ... see substack.com/home/post/p-...
So, the Democratic Socialist in the NYC Mayoral race was vilified, called a Communist (total disregard for truth claim) while the Scroogists in the race were applauded. What is going on? Well, it is a long standing problem... see open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
Why We Demonized Socialism but Excused Scroogism: A DIT Perspective
The current political race for mayor of New York stirred this post. Why? Well, the Democratic Socialist was claimed to be a communist, while the Scroogists were applauded. What is going on?
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November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So, the Democratic Socialist in the NYC Mayoral race was vilified, called a Communist (total disregard for truth claim) while the Scroogists in the race were applauded. What is going on? Well, it is a long standing problem... see open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
What's up? Well, am baffled as to why Americans are choosing to support the building of an Authoritarian Nation --- started on January 20, 2025 --- in the tilt away from our Constitutional Democracy Nation? Why? I don't get it. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why Humans Still Choose Authoritarianism Rather Than Democracy: A Dual Interest Theory Perspective
When fear, loss, and identity override empathy, the vertical instinct returns.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What's up? Well, am baffled as to why Americans are choosing to support the building of an Authoritarian Nation --- started on January 20, 2025 --- in the tilt away from our Constitutional Democracy Nation? Why? I don't get it. substack.com/home/post/p-...
What's up? Well, just came back from a 15-day Danube River Cruise to many German cities, and, learning a great deal about the 1933-1945 turn to Authoritarian Nationalism which put Germany on a Road to Serfdom. So, the question, why is the US going down that Road? substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Third Road to Serfdom: Authoritarian Nationalism
A Metaeconomic Reflection on Democracy, Authoritarian Nationalism, and Empathy
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November 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
What's up? Well, just came back from a 15-day Danube River Cruise to many German cities, and, learning a great deal about the 1933-1945 turn to Authoritarian Nationalism which put Germany on a Road to Serfdom. So, the question, why is the US going down that Road? substack.com/home/post/p-...
The app asks "What's up"? Well, the total disregard for truth to achieve purpose is "up"... like the opposition to right-wing nonsense --- opposition to the total disregard for the truth... is to be oppressed, silenced, even using lethal force military to suppress truth. What is going on?
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The app asks "What's up"? Well, the total disregard for truth to achieve purpose is "up"... like the opposition to right-wing nonsense --- opposition to the total disregard for the truth... is to be oppressed, silenced, even using lethal force military to suppress truth. What is going on?
The economic chaos being stirred by "the Don" and Project 1500 (oops, typo, 2025) is using very bad, Zombie Economics. We need a new kind of economics... see www.metaeconomics.info/project-of-m...
Project of Metaeconomics? | Metaeconomics
Economics started as moral philosophy: The Ethic was prominent. Modern Economics removed explicit consideration of the Ethic, putting all focus on the Incentive. The Project of Metaeconomics is to b...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The economic chaos being stirred by "the Don" and Project 1500 (oops, typo, 2025) is using very bad, Zombie Economics. We need a new kind of economics... see www.metaeconomics.info/project-of-m...
Easier to read version of latest Substack substack.com/home/post/p-... ...like 6th grade! Try it. You might like it. And, a link in same to the deeper version...
America Doesn't Look Like a Democracy Anymore
--- easier read ... try it ... then go to the deeper read...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Easier to read version of latest Substack substack.com/home/post/p-... ...like 6th grade! Try it. You might like it. And, a link in same to the deeper version...
Political Scientist Steven Levitsky, a researcher with credentials on the matter of the rise of Authoritarianism... recently declared American Democracy is going down fast... see open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
Americans No Longer Live in a Democracy
… because of the move to a Neopatrimonialism represented in a competitive authoritarianism project, justified by cargo-cult (make-believe) science
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September 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Political Scientist Steven Levitsky, a researcher with credentials on the matter of the rise of Authoritarianism... recently declared American Democracy is going down fast... see open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
Is the intellectual radical right actually legitimate? Well, not sure: It seems the goal is to take us back to the 1500s (like in Project 1500, oops, typo, 2025) with vertical power patrimonial systems, which obviously do not work. Why go back to that time? I do not get it.
September 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Is the intellectual radical right actually legitimate? Well, not sure: It seems the goal is to take us back to the 1500s (like in Project 1500, oops, typo, 2025) with vertical power patrimonial systems, which obviously do not work. Why go back to that time? I do not get it.
So, Metaeconomics is about bringing the moral and ethical dimension back into view, as in an economics with the human and their ethics left in, like a colleague D. McCloskey says it. Here is a book by another a colleague on the matter of moral and ethical education in our schools...
September 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
So, Metaeconomics is about bringing the moral and ethical dimension back into view, as in an economics with the human and their ethics left in, like a colleague D. McCloskey says it. Here is a book by another a colleague on the matter of moral and ethical education in our schools...
So, what's up? Well, am wondering if reasoned Conservatives might join the Progressives in working to stop the neutralizing of our 249-year experiment in Constitutional Democracy? See open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
Frogs Jumping Out of the Ever Hotter Water: Finally?
---the gradual but continual move to a vertical power rule of men patrimony is going to boil the frogs --- jump out, before it is too late
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September 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
So, what's up? Well, am wondering if reasoned Conservatives might join the Progressives in working to stop the neutralizing of our 249-year experiment in Constitutional Democracy? See open.substack.com/pub/metaecon...
Truth found using the scientific-method leads to consensus (e.g., people are at a point on the LGBTQ spectrum because of biology not choice; excessive greenhouse gases increase storm intensity). Said consensus is not an ideology. The ideology is from people unwilling to acknowledge the truth.
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Truth found using the scientific-method leads to consensus (e.g., people are at a point on the LGBTQ spectrum because of biology not choice; excessive greenhouse gases increase storm intensity). Said consensus is not an ideology. The ideology is from people unwilling to acknowledge the truth.
Given the accusations of leftist-ideology (including science is leftist) in play, it has become important to understand the frame from where it is coming ... well, it is coming from an intellectual tradition long-standing on the right ... see www.metaeconomics.info/post/radical...
Radical Move to Post-Liberalism
Review and MetaEcon Commentary on Rose, Matthew. A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right. Yale University Press, 2021.
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September 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Given the accusations of leftist-ideology (including science is leftist) in play, it has become important to understand the frame from where it is coming ... well, it is coming from an intellectual tradition long-standing on the right ... see www.metaeconomics.info/post/radical...
Ideology without a foundation built using serious and systematic inquiry in science & humanities (esp. ethics) is simply an ideology in total disregard of the truth.
September 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ideology without a foundation built using serious and systematic inquiry in science & humanities (esp. ethics) is simply an ideology in total disregard of the truth.
If one pays attention to scientific research, the empirical evidence makes clear that transgender identity is a phenomenon with biological underpinnings, not reducible to choice. So, anyone saying mean and cruel things about the "choices" of trans-people is ignoring/denying the science.
September 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If one pays attention to scientific research, the empirical evidence makes clear that transgender identity is a phenomenon with biological underpinnings, not reducible to choice. So, anyone saying mean and cruel things about the "choices" of trans-people is ignoring/denying the science.
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With all the political claims flying around at the current time, please take a breath, and, then, use the Scientific Method to reflect on the claim ... the slide gives the essence of that proven Method. And, reminder: A Democracy can only survive with truth in the core of it ... just saying...
September 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
With all the political claims flying around at the current time, please take a breath, and, then, use the Scientific Method to reflect on the claim ... the slide gives the essence of that proven Method. And, reminder: A Democracy can only survive with truth in the core of it ... just saying...
On the matter of tariffs: In particular, putting a tariff on an imported good is not about some kind of "inflationary" pressure. Rather it is about purposely raising prices, like the New Price = Old price + Tax (tariff). It is simply a price increase put in place by the Government.
September 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
On the matter of tariffs: In particular, putting a tariff on an imported good is not about some kind of "inflationary" pressure. Rather it is about purposely raising prices, like the New Price = Old price + Tax (tariff). It is simply a price increase put in place by the Government.