The Debate Over Tactics In the Modern Left: Radical Opposition or Strategic Inclusive Engagement?
Revisiting a classic debate over the tactics for achieving political/societal change.
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China Syndrome Redux: New Results on Global Labour Reallocation
What did China gain when the US lost manufacturing jobs?
Read more...Links 3/1/19
Bezos Admits His Fortune Is Due to Public Infrastructure….Even as He Fought Paying a Homeless Tax in Seattle, Shakes Down Cities for Subsidies
Bezos admits he and other squillionaires didn’t do the “heavy lifting” of building the infrastructure on which tech enterprises depend….yet tries to depict a space venture as a greenfield project. Help me.
Read more...The Rapid Victory of the West Virginia Teacher Strike Shows What Happens When Progressives Join the Fight Against School Privatization
What lessons can we draw from the success of the latest West Virginia teachers’ strike?
Read more...Deregulating Banks Fueled Speculation, Not Productive Investment
More proof that letting banks have their way is not such a good idea…at least for non-financiers.
Read more...Developing Industry Standards Won’t Give AI a Conscience
Marc Böhlen is part of the team developing universal benchmarks for ethical artificial intelligence (AI). He tells us why they won’t work.
Read more...Cancer’s Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls
Yves here. I am sure readers have many stories of their own from personal or family experience about how the health insurance industry shamefully goes into denial and delay mode with cancer patients. I know of all of one person who didn’t have a horrible time, but even then, as a widowed middle aged woman […]
Read more...Inequality Indicator: Retirement Homes in Secondary Tourist Area (Door County) Bid Way Up
Yves here. Those of you who know and love Door County (a peninsula in Wisconsin with Lake Michigan on one side and Green Bay on the other) may be offended at it being called a “secondary” tourist area. But it almost entirely a regional holiday destination, laid back, outdoorsy, with lots of hiking and biking […]
Read more...The Green New Deal: Just Focus on What We Do, Not How We Pay for It
The debate over the Green New Deal reinforces why government policy should focus on real resource constraints.
Read more...Why Carbon Prices Are Not Enough
A discussion of carbon taxes, cap and trade, and why neither is adequate by itself to change behavior.
Read more...Links 2/27/19
Randy Wray: Response to Doug Henwood’s Trolling on MMT in Jacobin
Doug Henwood’s intellectually dishonest attack on MMT sadly shows how many soi-disant progressives are in fact hostage to neoliberal ideas.
Read more...Brexit: MPs Sink to a New Collective Low of Incompetent Acquiescence
Motion on the Brexit front does not necessarily amount to progress.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Survival of the Richest, The March of Inequality
A look at the history of the rise in inequality in the US.
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