Ideas to bolster our local economy — & yours
The main arguments of Nooganomics.com:
— Financial, economic day of reckoning will hurt less if we bolster local economy
— Local economy is about self-determination, prudence, circumspection in dealings, personal relationships, favoring of local
— Conflict between national economy and local. (National relies on tax money, feds, coercion, compulsion. Local on grace, personal familiarity, trust, cooperation)
— Grace and mutual interest are a foundation of capitalism
— Capitalism a fruit of Christianity because capitalism implies thinking imaginatively in the service of others.
— Death of god of politics
— Liberating power of Internet spells eventual doom of the centralized welfare state and breaking up of industrialism’s monopolies
— Slogan: “Love your neighbor — shop local”
— Original coinage: “Noogacentrism”
— Quote: “Centralization produces apoplexy at the center and paralysis at the extremities.” — Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais