Pragma-Economics is an outgrowth of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Like the latter, its organic and intuitive innovation limit the ability of journalists and pundits to identify its leaders and forecast its next moves. As the guerrilla economists' proposals gain traction and evolve into action plans, this journalist will report with unrelenting objectivity on every permutation.
Footnotes:
1. Broadly defined as the unfettered exchange of goods and services. Some astute WSJ contributors argue that theft and robbery, with few constraints, fit under the definition of free-market activity.
2. Not to be understood here as the concept of Marginal Utility discussed in conventional economics. See later footnote on Pragma-Economics.
3. Pryne, J. (November, 2012). Is the U.S. Exporting Kochaholics? U.S. News and World Retort, 67-71.
4. Fletcher, R. (April, 2013). Dimonomics and the Nihilism of Welchovian Fatalism. The American Journal of Psychopathology. 12-471.
5. As defined by the FTC, a "term frequently used to denote the exaggerations reasonably to be expected of a seller as to the degree of quality of his product, the truth or falsity of which cannot be precisely determined." http://en.wikipedia.org/...
6. An emerging Social Science. Concerned chiefly with eliminating the overbearing influence of One-Percenters on regulated free markets, Pragmaconomists implement strategies to minimize income inequality, eliminate the corrosive affects of affluence on legislative integrity, and maximize free-market initiatives to reposition and relocate affluent Americans. This, they argue, will maximize economic stability, security, and sustainability.
7. Guided-Missile Frigates deploy several weapons systems suitable for engaging surface vessels. A declassified list is available at Janes Fighting Ship Registry, wwws.Janes.edu/SeaPlatforms/BedfordClass/offensive/battery.
8. Kreuger, F. (June, 1931). (Translation) Notes on the enhanced flammability and static conductivity of doped Krylon fabrics. Journal of Lighter-than-Air Craft. 33-38.
9. Acronym for United Nations Emergency Millionaire Relief Fund. Resolution #64-997, passed by consent 10/27/1985. (USSR abstained.)
10. For the convenience of elite citizens, and to reduce relocation expenses, several such intentional communities are situated throughout the continental United States.
Addendum; The UNHCR, after reviewing a proposal to open several dormant research facilities on Antarctica to the surplus economic refugees, declared the accommodations "Fittingly isolated to protect the world economy and democratic governance, appropriately desolate, but of insufficient scale." He deferred to the container-ship proposal.
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