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Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Nov 8, 2018

2020 and the Rise of Political Violence

Infamously, the 1968 Democratic Convention, held in Chicago, was wracked with protests — from the far left. There had been a civil war within the Democratic party, for the soul of the party, throughout much of the 1960s. The conservative southern Democrats vs…

Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Nov 27, 2018

My Libertarianism

Lately I have been trying to avoid the explicitly political and focus, instead, on scholarly work. While it is true that that scholarly work could have political consequences if read, developed, used, etc., it’s not explicitly political. There are political consequences to what one believes about…

Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Nov 16, 2018

No Second Chances

This year a man in his early 50s nearly had his career ruined over accusations that he was less than gentlemanly when he was a teenager. Too many people were acting as though the last 35 years of the man’s life had never happened. Once he grew up and became an adult, how did he behave? Has he…

Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Nov 29, 2018

How Government Solves Economic Problems

Suppose that the steel industry in your country isn’t doing so well. The problem is that steel makers in foreign countries are able to produce steel cheaper than it can be produced in your country. In fact, they can make steel so cheap, they can spend money…

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Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Nov 30, 2018

Neurodiversity and Group Selection

Humans are hypersocial, but hypersociality doesn’t necessarily mean acceptance of diversity. And yet, humans do manage to be both hypersocial and accepting of difference. Recent research suggests that the acceptance of diversity occurred about 100,000 years ago, and…

Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Nov 13, 2018

Villagers and Pillagers

The world is made of villagers and pillagers. It always has been. Perhaps it always will be, but we can hope all the same that we’ll grow beyond our pillaging stage once and for all.

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I take a complexity approach to understanding and interpreting economics and politics. I consider our civil society to be made up of subsets of self-organizing network processes that interact to create our civil society. This is a new liberalism (neither left nor right).

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