Stuart Chase 

 Born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, The United States March 08, 1888  DiedNovember 01, 1985

Stuart Chase was an American economist and engineer trained at MIT. His writings covered topics as diverse as general semantics and physical economy. His hybrid background of engineering and economics places him in the same philosophical camp as R. Buckminster Fuller. Chase's thought was shaped by Henry George, Thorstein Veblen and Fabian socialism.

Chase spent his early political career supporting "a wide range of reform causes: the single tax, women's suffrage, birth control and socialism." Chase's early books The Tragedy of Waste (1925) and Your Money's Worth (1928) were notable for their criticism of corporate advertising and their advocacy of consumer protection. Although not a Marxist, Chase admired the planned economy of the Soviet U ...more Stuart Chase's   The Tyranny of Words
 published 1938 —    The Proper Study of Mankind
 published 1978    Guides to Straight Thinking, with 13 Common Fallacies
 published 1956    Power of Words
by Stuart Chase, Marian T. Chase
 published 1954      Danger: Men Talking! A Background Book on Semantics and Communication
 published 1969     Some Things Worth Knowing; A Generalist's Guide To Useful Knowledge
 published 1970 — 2 editions    Mexico: A Study Of Two Americas
by Stuart Chase, Marian Tyler, Diego Rivera (Illustrator)
published 1931 — 3 editions     Rate THE ROAD WE ARE TRAVELING 1914-1942: Guidelines to America's future as reported to the Twentieth Century Fund
 published 2015      The Challenge of Waste
by Stuart Chase, Roy Pitchford (Editor)
 published 1922  Tragedy of waste
 published 1925      

Last edited by Common Sense (5/06/2016 7:54 am)

You post his quote? 

I think the quote is somewhat profound and revealing.  The author of the quote isn't important to me.  It's the message of the quote that should be discussed and what it says about human nature.

Commonsense tells us the earth is flat because when I walk toward the horizon I don't sense I'm walking on a sphere and if I go too far, I would fall off.  Innovative and creative people challenge what we observe and widely accept as truth.

That's what I took from the quote, anyway.

Just Fred wrote:

I think the quote is somewhat profound and revealing.  The author of the quote isn't important to me.  It's the message of the quote that should be discussed and what it says about human nature.

Commonsense tells us the earth is flat because when I walk toward the horizon I don't sense I'm walking on a sphere and if I go too far, I would fall off.  Innovative and creative people challenge what we observe and widely accept as truth.

That's what I took from the quote, anyway.

I completely agree, Fred.
And just to be clear, we are discussing the widely used term. Not the poster using the moniker.
No need to take offense.

Think different.

Last edited by Goose (5/06/2016 3:31 pm)