Essay Economy
At some point, the household budget climbed out of the drawer and began telling the household what it was for. That is more or less where we are. The economy was meant to help us tend life. Somewhere along the way, life was told to reorganize itself around the economy...Essay Economy
A tree that refused to rest would not be praised for its work ethic. We would fetch an arborist. Yet the economy looks at the same behavior and calls it ambition. It expects the fruit to keep coming even when the roots are tired and the season has clearly moved on....Essay Economy
Somewhere, a chart is rising while a woman is moving one bill beneath another at the kitchen table. The chart may make the morning news. The woman will not. We have become strangely loyal to economic language that can announce “growth” while ordinary life is being...