Yearly Archives: 2015
Wolf Richter: Google Sarcasm, or How I (and the Entire Industry) Make a Living
Richter describes what it’s like as a publisher to be subject to the vagaries of Google Adsense.
Read more...5 of the Worst Examples of Biased and Distorted Media Coverage of Education in 2015
It’s not hard to see that the effort to loot, um, privatize education has an attack on teachers as a big part of its strategy…which undermines support for education.
Read more...Links 12/30/15
Economics Joke Time
An economics joke open thread. Of course, economists might have the presence of mind to retort that economics is too important to be taken seriously.
Read more...Matthew Cunningham-Cook: Five Reasons Tariffs Are Great
Saying tariffs could be a good thing is close to a taboo in economics. Is that distaste justified?
Read more...Links 12/29/15
Ilargi: 2016 Is An Easy Year To Predict
Deflation will become an even more powerful and destructive force in 2016.
Read more...Gaius Publius: It Wasn’t Just Exxon — They All Knew
Exxon was not the only oil major that knew decades ago about global warming and chose to launch an agnotology campaign.
Read more...Links 12/28/15
Clinton, Sanders, and the “Progressive Give-Up” Formula (with Clinton’s Warning of a “Grand Bargain” to Come)
Clinton, Sanders, and days of Mondale past.
Read more...What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement—An Insider’s View
Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left in Occupy.
Read more...Links 12/27/15
Work, Play, and Social Artifacts Under the Tree
Model railroading as work and play.
Read more...Medieval Champagne Fairs: Lessons for Development
History does hold lessons for economic development, and one of them is that public-order institutions are crucial – for good or ill.
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