⬅️ Back to 60.3 Politics · Sister MOCs: Ideology & Foundations · Political Philosophy (MOC)
Political economy: markets vs. planning, and the case for and against each system.
Systems: Capitalism vs. Socialism
- Capitalism — the hub (positive case + links)
- Refutations of Socialism & Communism — the consolidated argument bank
- The Nature of Capitalism - Peterson Academy — the 8-lecture pro-capitalism course
- Mises Institute Notes — Austrian economics, the calculation problem, Hoppe
- Socialism_Marxism · Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
The Communist Record
- The Rise of Communism - Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius · Vejas Liulevicius - Communism Marxism Nazism Stalin Mao Hitler
- Communism in Power · The Communist Manifesto
- Communism Debate - Andrew Wilson VS Haz Al-Din
Fiscal & Monetary
- Welfare States, Fiscal Pressure, and the Politics of Reform — comparative budgets, welfare definitions, pensions and healthcare, Britain’s disability debate, reform politics, 17 charts and audited source limits
- Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
- Gold Standard · Tax Cuts & Debt · Taxes paid by class
Institutions, Commons & Collective Action
- Elinor Ostrom - Beyond Markets and States — extended Nobel-lecture summary: polycentric governance, common-pool resources, IAD, design principles, and the evidence against treating purely self-interested full rationality as a universal model
- Hayek - Knowledge Problem — dispersed knowledge, price coordination, and Ostrom’s extension from market decentralization to institutional pluralism
- Plural feedback as the alternative to command planning — markets, governments, firms, cooperatives, and user associations matched to the tasks they can monitor and correct
Cost of Living & Affordability
- Affordability Crisis — multi-angle research file: what is actually rising, what only feels expensive, which political claims hold up, and how it maps onto 50 years of inequality
- Affordability, Household Debt, and the Modern Household Budget — debt stock vs. payment burden, credit cards and BNPL, the 1984–2024 household budget, modern luxuries, and who is actually exposed
- Were the 1950s Better Than Today - A Standard of Living Audit — economics, lifestyle, crime, comforts, health care, exclusion, and the things the postwar era genuinely did better
- What Poverty Means - Absolute, Relative, and Why Cross-Country Numbers Lie — the definitional layer: subsistence vs. absolute vs. relative, where the U.S. poverty line came from, and why “China 0%, America 10.6%” is not a comparison
Opposing Views (steelman)
- The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- Alex — Capitalism, Imperialism, Palestine, Labor, and Fascism Argument Map
Handwritten Notebook Topics
- Corporate Moral Obligations - Amazon vs Bookshop — business ethics and obligations beyond compliance
- Christianity and the Rise of Capitalism — religious institutions and economic development
Base index
60.3.7 Economics.base (file not included in this release)
Filed captures and working notes — October 2026
Economic institutions, policy and finance courses
- Poverty — preserved working note or source capture
- Tariff Arguments — preserved working note or source capture
- The Morality and Practice of Finance - Peterson Academy — preserved working note or source capture
- The Politics & Legal Foundations of Finance - Peterson Academy — preserved working note or source capture
- There are no solutions only trade offs — preserved working note or source capture
- US Economic System, Fiat Currency, and Debt — preserved working note or source capture