Anne Emerson-Photographer,
Poet, and Essayist
Systemic Bias -
an Economist's Perspective
These essays are for general readers. It will help if you have taken economics for business, but it is not required.
Annie's general knowledge, economic training, and research data suggested to her, many years ago, that the global economy is a "closed system." You would have to be trained as a scientist or mathematician in order to know what that means, technically.
But the bottom line is that she used this knowledge to build an economic model that explains why some of the phenomena of the global economy do not behave as mainstream economists have been taught.
Economic theory is on the essays page. Data are on the Poems page, in the "People Poems" section. A link below - the path of growth and change - will take you to the data. The most important essays are here, at the series of links on a dark background, below the introductory remarks.
Links to Annie's Essays - How we got here and why it matters
When Annie had developed her written summary of the path of growth and change, based on her data, she was granted an academic qualification based on the empirical work. She was told that she would need to model her process (in order to be taken seriously, she assumes), but advised to stop at the point she had already reached - a large and thorough empirical investigation of census data on migration in Algeria.
Many years later, she was motivated to do as she had been told, to "model the process." The results were amazing! She had debunked Adam Smith's invisible hand, as presented in economics textbooks. Fortunately, she decided to read some Smith before she presumed to critique the man himself! Smith agreed with Annie! Almost the whole world, it appears, prefers to trust economics textbooks rather than find out what Smith actually said. Perhaps he has been superseded; perhaps not. He was writing during a period of tremendous economic change. We know more now, but not enough to ignore him altogether. Please see links below.
