Welcome to political and economic clarity.
Clarity comes from understanding how things work, thereby allowing us to predict how well – or poorly – they will turn out.
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Burkean Economics, aka B. Economics or BEcon or Economic Control Theory or eCon or Burkean Control Theory, clarifies expected results from political and economic policy decisions.
BEcon explains how we humans behave – as individuals, as family units and as agents of external control on others. It does this by considering individual intelligence and agency.
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BEcon values results, not intentions. Better results are predictable, worse results even more predictable. The smarter those playing with other people's money, the more likely are terrible or horrifying results.
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Burkean Economics isn’t about just economics. It applies to any endeavor involving more than one person, especially when masses of people are involved. Hence, Burkean Control Theory can more generally be thought of as Humanity Control Theory.
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BEcon's many names reflect both its long, perambulating gestation, and its protean application to both economics and family dynamics.
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It became BEcon on June 29, 2025. Most of the site hasn't caught up.
BEcon Definition
Burkean Economics – BEcon – is a new political and economic control theory applied to political-economy choices at the large group level. It's frame is cCon v. dCon, i.e., how control is distributed on Control Axes: from Centralized Control or cCon on the left to Decentralized Control or dCon on the right.
BEcon Ambition
BEcon can inform a new politics — lucid and healthy — for our (still) new millennium. Join in.
BEcon Canon
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BEcon 102 — eCon Axes shows how BEcon can be assessed across each axis of economic control, aka BEcon Axes.
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BEcon 103 – Economic Systems on the BEcon Axis plots Communism, Socialism, Markets and Laissez-faire on the eCon Axis.
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BEcon 300 — The Particle Physics Model of Socionomic Systems describes a model that will allow for the quantifiable evaluation of socionomic policies and trade-offs.
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BEcon 301 — Burkean Economics is a cohesive overview of The New Economics, including Real Classes vs. Contrived Classes, the former Burkean Classes, the latter Marxist Classes.
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BEcon 310 — Energy Economy — BEcon Analysis is the first application of BEcon analysis, an alpha test if ever there was one. Caveat emptor.
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BEcon 400 — The dCon Manifesto utilizes the fortuitous rise of Decentralized Control in organisms other than economics to understand the organic superiority of dCon, thus proving that dCon is the True North for thriving societies.
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BEcon 401 — dCon vs. cCon addresses the conflict between Decentralized and Centralized Control.
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BEcon 402 — dCon Mechanisms introduces the three ways dCon gets infused into human affairs.
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BEcon 403 — dCon v other Econography compares dCon to Limited Government, Low Taxes and other Right Wing priorities, then moves Left to address Unions and Utopianism.
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BEcon 404 — dCon Doesn’t Promise Utopia debunks any notion that it does.
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BEcon 501 — addresses the pros and cons of dCon’s many monikers, and touches on various BEcon monikers.
