What We Need To Know About The Market Economy

There is good reason that the Market Economy receives so much attention from humans and is largely considered to be what economics is all about. It’s a pretty incredible phenomenon, and has been incredibly instrumental in developing what we consider human civilization. It includes everything we buy and sell as we create the art of our lives.

Both the (Free) Market and Command Economic Systems are part of The Market Economy. From the perspective of capitalism, and its dream of the (Free) Market Economic System, this consists of the four roles of business owner-operator, consumer, worker, and government. The Command Economic System seems to merge the roles of business owner-operator with government and consumer with worker. Both methods are still largely focused on only a portion of human life, the marketplace, and fail to take in the greater picture.

As the hard sciences of biology, chemistry, and geology can attest, there are many other things occurring in the world outside the marketplace. Because the science of economics is incapable of recognizing them, much less addressing them, even though it is a soft science, its misuse creates effects that are very hard for the rest of the world to adapt to. And treating it like a hard science, as most militant capitalists and communists do, forces the Core Economy, Planetary Economy, and Gift Economy to endure whatever short-sighted, ill-conceived methodology homo sapiens conjure up in our attempts to control the world by turning it all into one big “free”…