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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.

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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. Time Series Forecasting Tools
     9. Simulation Modeling the Business Firm
     10. Economy and Government in the Postmodern Era
     11. Economy and Christianity in the Postmodern Era
     12. An Economist's Meditations on Economy and Christianity
     13. Divine or Mortal?
     14. Theism
     15. Christianity in the Postmodern World
     16. Myth and Metaphor in Economics, Politics, and Religion
     17. Monetary Policy in an Open Economy World
     18. Trade and Payments in an Open Economy World
     19. Economic Growth and Development
     20. Charting the Stanford and Polk Ancestries
     21. Bond Market Demand and Supply
     22. Economic Implications Essays
     23. Economic Issues
     24. Graphic Arts Files
     25. The Capital Scarcity Rate of Interest
     26. 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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