What Is The Real Price Of American Politics–Especially For Black America?

By Dr. Brooks Robinson\Black Economics.org Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Isaiah 2:4, KJV)[i] There may be an effort afoot to reduce the role of economists and economics today.[ii] However, it is common knowledge that methods for distributing resources (scarce or plentiful), a role traditionally assigned to economists and economics, have long been important and front-and-center considerations for societies—irrespective race or ethnicity. Not being an historian, and with only scanty knowledge of economic history, we state what is easily accessible to us concerning “price.” In the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions (all adhering to monotheism and recognizing each other’s laws and wisdom and prophetic literatures), we point interested readers to the Old Testament where Yahweh delivers directives to Moses to perform tasks that are defined, in part, by prices.[iii] Suffice it to say that there are numerous references to prices in the Holy Bible; thereby, establishing that all three religious traditions comprehend the importance of assigning value and doingso in a systematic manner so that...