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The Performative Turn
The story thus far at The Permanent Problem: Capitalism in the 21st century has triumphed globally and there are no viable alternatives in sight, but…
Brink Lindsey
Jan 31
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Prospects for a More Inclusive Capitalism
I’ve just completed a series of essays on the crisis of dynamism, concluding with a couple of posts on the outlook down the road. I’d now like to circle…
Brink Lindsey
Jan 24
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Technological Progress vs. Diminishing Returns
The world of modern economic growth and rapid, continuous technological advance feels natural to us, as it’s the only world we’ve ever known. But of…
Brink Lindsey
Jan 17
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Is Dynamism Doomed?
I ended my last essay with a cliffhanger question: is capitalist dynamism doomed? To answer the question, I think we need to distinguish between…
Brink Lindsey
Jan 10
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The Global Fertility Collapse
Thanks for reading The Permanent Problem! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. When I was a kid, fear of overpopulation was all…
Brink Lindsey
Jan 3
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December 2022
The Permanent Problem on December Break
I dodged it for 2 1/2 years, but last week covid finally caught up with me. It’s been a mild case all told, but I lost a week to feeling feverish…
Brink Lindsey
Dec 7, 2022
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November 2022
The Absence of Systemic Competition
The prime mover of technological and social progress — just as for biological evolution — is variation. Different cultures rubbing up against each…
Brink Lindsey
Nov 29, 2022
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The Retreat from Reality
There’s something called wilderness therapy that offers a distinctive approach to helping troubled young people: make them live outside for a couple of…
Brink Lindsey
Nov 21, 2022
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The Anti-Promethean Backlash
We are able to say that communist central planning failed because we can compare its results with those of capitalism. We can look at nighttime photos…
Brink Lindsey
Nov 15, 2022
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Loss Aversion (by Any Other Name) and the Decline of Dynamism
With the benefit of hindsight, it’s now pretty clear that capitalism in the advanced economies hit some kind of inflection point in the early 1970s. The…
Brink Lindsey
Nov 7, 2022
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The Age of Stasis
It’s my contention that 21st century capitalism is undergoing a triple crisis — one of inclusion, one of dynamism, and one of politics. As to the first…
Brink Lindsey
Nov 1, 2022
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October 2022
Thoughts on Slouching Towards Utopia
I’m going to digress from my ongoing survey of the roots of the 21st century crisis of capitalism to discuss a great new book with a similar theme …
Brink Lindsey
Oct 24, 2022
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