Cutting Through the Chaos

Cutting Through the Chaos


What is an economy, and what is it for?

October 07, 2025

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – The economy is not a machine to be operated, a lever to be pulled, or a formula to be optimized. It is the sum of human action. It is everything people do, from farming and building to trading, innovating, and exchanging. Because it is human activity, the economy has no singular “purpose.” People have purposes - systems do not...