Anne Emerson- Photographer,Twin, and Author
Anne Emerson - Fine Art Photographer, Poet, and Essayist
Annie is incorrigibly interested in everything, with knowledge of diverse worldviews and mindsets, and a passion for and deep understanding of writing, reading, and research; she is quick, analytical, responsive, and honest.
Imagery to Stir the Soul
and Tease the Senses -
using photo-art and wordcraft
The academic paper at the link above is an early presentation of ideas that foreshadowed the two working academic papers below. Policy prescriptions in this paper are fairly conventional - invest in rural regions, etcetera. During the pandemic, Annie realized that a tighter monetary policy would work better than those prescriptions. Such a policy must be carefully orchestrated.
A scholarly book, "This Time is Different," explains how pressure builds up in financial systems. Individual statistical tests can mislead. A whole body of them, probably not. (I am being polite here... but it's dangerous for an amateur to presume to advise professionals. It is also dangerous for politicians to trust financial analysts who have a conflict of interest in the matter. Adam Smith warned against trusting "merchants" wanting to influence the law. THAT Smith's contemporaries called him a moral philosopher.)
Reader Annie
In her personal life, Annie has read widely in many genres - popular science, literary classics, popular philosophy, etc.
For a worldview, based on her life story and her readings, please see other pages of this website, in particular the Happiness page.
Economist Annie
In her professional life, Annie was a teacher of business economics in the evenings, and a worker in the finance department of an IT services start-up during the day. The company became international, with workers in many US states and Canada.
New: Economist Annie says:
Elevator Speech of Annie’s Themes, Jan-04-2026
Annie’s model illustrates three findings. The paragraph below helps explain this:
Free marketeers believe that the benefits of growth and productivity extend to all. But Annie’s model shows us that (1) POCKETS OF POVERTY REMAIN IN FREE-MARKET SOCIETIES, EVEN THOUGH POVERTY MAY DECLINE OVERALL. Not only does “trickle-down” to very poor minorities NOT occur, but also (2) MAJORITY-RULE FOR MAJORITY-BENEFIT PULLS RESOURCES AWAY FROM THOSE ALREADY LEFT BEHIND -- locally, nationally, and globally. The left-behind become disillusioned, angry, disruptive, and sometimes violent. Anne’s simple solution to financial inequality is to (3) REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THE GLOBAL SYSTEM, WHICH CAN HELP PRICES ADJUST TO BETTER REFLECT TRUE VALUES.
