Memeconomins

I'd like to share this video.  MEMEnomics by Said Dawlabani (summary)

http://youtu.be/XuXho2qAsP8


This is something... ordinal, hierarchical, but noteworthy in that macroeconomics and humanism stands a reasonable chance. Almost like the norse economic models.


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