Against False Arrogance of Economic Knowledge
The shortcomings of economic reasoning are well known, yet mainstream practitioners embrace and defend them.
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Californians! Please Write Today to Support Public Access to Government Records
California government bodies regularly thwart public requests for government documents. Write today to support a bill to curb those abuses.
Read more...Bill Black: Dodd-Frank Was Designed to Fail – and Trump Will Make it Worse
More confirmation that Dodd-Frank was never intended to do more than make marginal changes in bank regulation to forestall real reform.
Read more...How to Keep Losing Wars in the Middle East
The US game plan for the Middle East seems to be not just more wars, but losing more wars.
Read more...More Brexit Miscalculations: UK Can Have Industrial Policy Only With Hard Brexit
The UK government wants industrial policy reforms that are incompatible with EU rules. Those rules would apply save in a hard Brexit.
Read more...It’s Time to Regulate the Gig Economy
Depicting the gig economy as ‘sharing favours’ creates a parallel dimension, where chores are form of leisure, with no relation to ‘work’.
Read more...Links 4/18/17
The Brexit Situation is Developing Not Necessarily to the UK’s Advantage
We’ve been neglecting Brexit due to Trump going uber hawkish and the resulting barrage of news stories to sort through. And another reason is that the noise to signal ratio got even higher in the British media around the time Brexit became official. Formal progress will be virtually nil till late May. The UK and […]
Read more...Theresa May Announces Surprise Early Election for June 8
Theresa May reversed early firm promises and announced snap elections.
Read more...Gaius Publius: New Evidence that Syrian Gas Story Was Fabricated by the White House
The Obama White House blamed Assad for a 2013 sarin attack in advance of evidence. The claim fell apart. The Trump White House is making a rerun.
Read more...Skepticism About Private Equity Fees Going Mainstream: Pew and CalPERS Versus Yale and Industry Stalwarts
Private equity is getting defensive about its fees, and for good reason: its justifications for them are being exposed as hollow.
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 2
How the the new international economic architecture for trade, investment, & property rights hurt workers in advanced and developing economies
Read more...Washington DC Area Meetup on Friday, April 28!
Hope to see you at our Washington DC area meetup later this month.
Read more...Links 4/15/17
California and Trump’s Feds Headed to Major Clash on Immigration
Who has the advantage in the Trump versus California immigration cage match?
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