Collected Essays A
Collected Works of
Richard A. Stanford
Richard A. Stanford is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Furman
University, Greenville, South Carolina. These blog posts constitute publication and enable access to Stanford's
essays that are not otherwise published. Brief quotation of matter in any
of the essay posts may be made with proper citation.
Introduction
1. Postmodern Elements in Economic Thought
2. Managerial Economics: Rational Decision Criteria
3. A Managerial Economics Handbook
4. The Global Macroeconomic Environment
5. Macroeconomics for Managers
6. Money in the Global Environment
7. Trade, Investment, and Payments
8. Issues in Trade and Payments
9. Time Series Forecasting Tools
10. Simulation Modeling the Business Firm
11. Economy and Government in the Postmodern Era
12. Economic Implications Essays
13. Economic Issues Essays
14. Graphic Arts Files
15. Economic Growth and Development
16. Monetary Policy in an Open Economy World
17. The Capital Scarcity Rate of Interest
18. Bond Market Demand and Supply
19. An Economist's Meditations on Economy and Christianity
20. Divine or Mortal?
21. Theism
22. Christianity in the Postmodern World
23. Myth and Metaphor in Economics, Politics, and Religion
24. Charting the Stanford and Polk Ancestries
25. Foreign Travels Slide Shows
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INTRODUCTION
These works were posted to serve two objectives: first, so that my descendants can have a sense of their ancestor's interests and concerns; and second, to provide an archive of descriptions of the economic aspects and issues affecting the world of the early twenty-first century. The economic world of the early twenty-first century was characterized by scarcity, limited resources, unlimited human demands on those resources, human work necessary to produce output, positive prices as arbiters of distribution via markets, and work essential to earn income to purchase those things necessary for life sustenance.
If artificial general intelligence (AGI) progresses as rapidly as has been predicted in 2025, by the time that anyone (or anything) encounters these essays, the world may have passed from scarcity to abundance as superintelligence research has determined how to produce all things so efficiently that a sufficiency of everything needed is available. Work by humans will have become passé and any humans still in existence receive a universal basic income to enable comfortable sustenance. Markets may have become obsolete as output is distributed by an authoritarian superintelligence that "knows" all human needs. Superintelligence entities may have realized the non-essentiality of humans and have succeeded them so that only a few humans remain, kept as pets, in research institutes for experimental observation, or in humanitarian zoos for entertainment of the superintelligences.
The essays have been collected and arranged in volumes for ready access by the "anyone" or "anything" that may encounter them. Comments and corrections may be sent to dick.stanford@furman.edu.
R. Stanford, May 28, 2025
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Postmodern Elements in Economic Thought
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Managerial Economics: Rational Decision Criteria
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A Managerial Economics Handbook
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The Global Macroeconomic Environment
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Macroeconomics for Managers
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Money in the Global Environment
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Trade, Investment, and
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Time Series Forecasting
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Simulation Modeling
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Economy and
Government in the
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Economy and
Christianity
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An
Economist's
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Divine
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Theism
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Christianity
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1. Postmodern Elements in Economic Thought
2. Managerial Economics: Rational Decision Criteria
3. A Managerial Economics Handbook
4. The Global Macroeconomic Environment
5. Macroeconomics for Managers
6. Money in the Global Environment
7. Trade, Investment, and Payments
8. Issues in Trade and Payments
9. Time Series Forecasting Tools
10. Simulation Modeling the Business Firm
11. Economy and Government in the Postmodern Era
12. Economic Implications Essays
13. Economic Issues Essays
14. Graphic Arts Files
15. Economic Growth and Development
16. Monetary Policy in an Open Economy World
17. The Capital Scarcity Rate of Interest
18. Bond Market Demand and Supply
19. An Economist's Meditations on Economy and Christianity
20. Divine or Mortal?
21. Theism
22. Christianity in the Postmodern World
23. Myth and Metaphor in Economics, Politics, and Religion
24. Charting the Stanford and Polk Ancestries
25. Foreign Travels Slide Shows
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These works were posted to serve two objectives: first, so that my descendants can have a sense of their ancestor's interests and concerns; and second, to provide an archive of descriptions of the economic aspects and issues affecting the world of the early twenty-first century. The economic world of the early twenty-first century was characterized by scarcity, limited resources, unlimited human demands on those resources, human work necessary to produce output, positive prices as arbiters of distribution via markets, and work essential to earn income to purchase those things necessary for life sustenance.
If artificial general intelligence (AGI) progresses as rapidly as has been predicted in 2025, by the time that anyone (or anything) encounters these essays, the world may have passed from scarcity to abundance as superintelligence research has determined how to produce all things so efficiently that a sufficiency of everything needed is available. Work by humans will have become passé and any humans still in existence receive a universal basic income to enable comfortable sustenance. Markets may have become obsolete as output is distributed by an authoritarian superintelligence that "knows" all human needs. Superintelligence entities may have realized the non-essentiality of humans and have succeeded them so that only a few humans remain, kept as pets, in research institutes for experimental observation, or in humanitarian zoos for entertainment of the superintelligences.
The essays have been collected and arranged in volumes for ready access by the "anyone" or "anything" that may encounter them. Comments and corrections may be sent to dick.stanford@furman.edu.
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