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Collected Essays of

Richard A. Stanford

 

Richard A. Stanford was Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. These blog posts constitute publication and enable access to Stanford's essays that are not otherwise published. Brief quotation of matter in any of the essay posts may be made with proper citation. Comments and corrections are welcome at dick.stanford@furman.edu.

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INTRODUCTION

These essays were written mostly after my retirement in 2008 to serve two objectives: first, so that my descendants can have a sense of their ancestor's interests and concerns; and second, to provide an archive of descriptions of the economic aspects and issues affecting the world of the early twenty-first century. The economic world of the early twenty-first century was characterized by scarcity, limited resources, unlimited human demands on those resources, human work necessary to produce output, positive prices as arbitors of distribution via markets, and work essential to earn income to purchase those things necessay for life sustenance.

If artificial general intelligence (AGI) progresses as rapidly as has been predicted in 2025, by the time that anyone (or anything) encounters these essays, the world may have passed from scarcity to abundance as superintelligence research has determined how to produce all things so efficiently that a sufficiency of everying needed is available. Work by humans will have become passé and any humans still in existence receive a universal basic income to enable comfortable sustenance. Markets may have become obsolete as output is distributed by an authoritarian superintelligence that "knows" all human needs. Superintelligence entities may have realized the non-essentiality of humans and have succeeded them so that only a few humans remain, kept as pets, in research institutes for experimental observation, or in humanitarian zoos for entertainment of the superintelligences.

My essays have been collected and arranged in volumes for ready access by the "anyone" or "anything" that may encounter them.

R. Stanford, May 28, 2025

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  1. Economic Implications

  2. Economic Issues

  3. Money in the Global Environment

  4. Monetary Policy in an Open Economy World

  5. International Commerce: Theory and Policy

  6. Issues in International Trade and Payments

  6. Issues in International Trade and Payments

  7. Issues in Economic Growth and Development

  8. Lineage Tracing the Bible

  9. Charting the Stanford and Polk Ancestries

10. Family Ancestry Stories

11. Essays on Theology and Religion

12. The Margins of Christianity

13. Time Series Forecasting Tools

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