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In this article, we argue that as humanity falls deeper into the Capitalocene, the consequences of our misunderstanding of ourselves as humans and our place on earth become ever more pronounced. It would seem that only a true change in telos from an economics that serves the private interest of financial rent to one that serves humanity would be adequate to meet the challenges currently facing humanity. Ridding our thinking of the notions of humans as individualistic by nature, and economies as only driven by the motive of individual monetary accumulation, would allow us not only to understand the true social natures of work, technology, and money, but also to envision public policy proposals that need not involve either trillions of dollars in spending, nor tearing the whole system down, but rather the transformation of the mission of our current economic institutions, guided by more realistic thinking than that currently offered by the mainstream. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces the pedigree of ideas and the personal and institutional connections that led us to collaborate with Alain Parguez, whose academic legacy we celebrate here by exploring the roots, the current relevance, and the future of his research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2016 election of Donald Trump has been one of the most controversial in the recent political history of the United States. While many have correctly described and criticized his leadership as a president, they tend to focus these issues within the framework of the worrying and unique personality traits of the current president. This article will take a different approach, and attempts to understand Donald Trump as man of his times, in many ways a singularly precise personification of today's neoliberal inspired zeitgeist. The article will focus on four elements of the neoliberal project: "post truth", disaster capitalism, individualism, and the dumbing down of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]