The core theme of this blog

The root idea of this blog is to return to the natural meaning of economy as from the original Greek word, meaning the management of a family household.

Economy ought to be about creating a healthy happy environment for children, parents, extended families. However, in most places now, families are not dominant but have to dance to the tune of financiers, big business, governments and other institutions who don't really understand or love the family sufficiently, and whose agenda is not primarily concerned with the good of the family.

Hence their actions often turn out in practice to be hostile to the family, at least unwittingly. It also happens they deliberately oppose the family, because some key family values are radically opposed to theirs: thrift against consumerism, for example.

This blog is an invitation to unpack the implications of this scenario, develop an understanding of economics as nature intended, and to gather material for other expressions such as conferences, books and articles.

The value of things

Thrift is about saving money, isn't it? Think again. That would imply a reduction of value to monetary value.

Thrift is about saving things because they have intrinsic value; it is about reverence, care, stewardship, about wonder at the simple and ordinary but pervasive things like air, water, food, clothing, materials,...

It is about being content with the adequate and ordinary because we have not forgotten that good enough is just that: good. The good does not disappear the moment a newer or more attractive product appears on the market.

The money we happen to save as a consequence of this attitude is merely a side-effect, not the chief focus of our intentions.