Archive for Mini-Factories

The Anti-Federalists, Entrepreneurship, & the Future of Freedom, Part 6: Solutions

by: Oliver DeMille April 17, 2010

This is part 6 of a 6-part article. Click Here to Download a Printable Version of This Article Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here Read Part 5 Here Solutions Old and New The anti-Federalist solutions for these problems may well have helped. They proposed that [...]

The Entrepreneurial Foundations of Free Society, Part 1: Intelligences

by: Oliver DeMille March 30, 2010

Click Here to Download a Printable Version of This Article This is part 1 of a 5-part article. Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here Read Part 5 Here Howard Gardner’s research suggests that there are fundamentally seven basic intelligences: literary, mathematical, artistic, musical, spatial, interpersonal and intrapersonal. Modern education [...]

How to Become a Producer, Part 4: Three Steps

by: Oliver DeMille March 20, 2010

Click Here to Download a Printable Version of This Article This is part 4 of a 4-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here But all of this commentary falls short of the real point. Only the individual can truly become an entrepreneur. If there is to be a [...]

How to Become a Producer, Part 3: The Answer

by: Oliver DeMille March 19, 2010

This is part 3 of a 4-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 4 Here How do we create more producers? The answer, as frustrating as it is to the experts, is this: We don’t. That is, institutionalized and standardized programs do not of themselves yield producers, except by happenstance [...]

How to Become a Producer, Part 1: Dependents vs. Independents

by: Oliver DeMille March 17, 2010

This is part 1 of a 4-part article. Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here Producers are the most important citizens, as Thomas Jefferson put it. Actually, the word he used was farmers—specifically, “tillers of the soil.” By producing food, farmers obviously had an important role in successful society. But [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 5: Specific Entrepreneurial Challenges

by: Oliver DeMille March 13, 2010

Click Here to Download a Printable Version of this Article This is part 5 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here Let’s get specific. Either a generation of entrepreneurs will arise or the “Patio Man” lifestyle will end. Very soon, the following [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 4: The Right Level of Complexity

by: Oliver DeMille March 12, 2010

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide This is part 4 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here The Right Level of Complexity The main criticism of simple societies is that they are often intolerant, controlling, and narrow-minded. This is an accurate and good criticism, and [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 2: Major Challenges

by: Oliver DeMille March 10, 2010

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide This is part 2 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Consider the major problems we are facing. Most are the natural results of too much reliance on institutional size and power and not enough initiative, innovation, and leadership from “little guys.” Of course, the few who [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 1: Failed Solutions

by: Oliver DeMille March 9, 2010

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide This is part 1 of a 5-part article. When America decided to follow Alexander Hamilton’s economic model instead of the Jeffersonian system, a number of changes occurred which now haunt our generation. Jefferson envisioned a nation of small farm and shop owners that spread around leadership and prosperity, [...]

21st Century Georgics: An Introduction

by: Hyrum Lefler March 8, 2010

A key factor in maintaining freedom is sustainable economic forms. Are you maintaining freedom through the financial principles and practices you are using? Have American families adopted the economic forms necessary for the preservation of a free people? The average American household pays over 34.5% of every dollar earned to interest payments. Forget about the [...]