Don’t “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
Why the Schumer/Sanders bill on stock buybacks isn’t a very good instrument for improving labor rights and work standards.
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Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Opioid abuse has strong economic roots, namely despair resulting from desperation in struggling communities.
Read more...Wellbeing Measurements, Easterlin’s Paradox and New Growth Models: A Perspective through Gross National Happiness
Examines new growth models, especially Bhutan’s, which has pursued gross national happiness, rather than GDP, since the 1970s.
Read more...How Imperfect Knowledge Shapes Financial Markets
A discussion of various theories of how financial markets set prices.
Read more...Has America Always Embraced Capitalism?
History shows that capitalism isn’t natural or normal, strengthening the belief that we can create something better.
Read more...Can Shareholder Activism Tame the Financial System?
Is shareholder activism capable of achieving lasting change?
Read more...Amazon Drops New York City Headquarters Plan in a Snit
Does the testy abandonment of its New York City “HQ2” scheme mean we’ve hit Peak Amazon?
Read more...Who Is Really A Socialist?
Identifying some core “socialist” views.
Read more...If Medicare for All Is Politically Impossible, “All Payer” Could Fix the System
How an “all payer” program could be a big and politically palatable step towards fixing America’s broken health care system.
Read more...A Study in Professional Power: Why Do the Big 4 Accountants Survive?
How the Big 4 accountants cemented their position and why that matters.
Read more...How Neoliberalism Is Normalising Hostility
Tracing how neoliberalism has corroded social values.
Read more...On the Built-In Instability of Cryptocurrencies
Why volatility of cryptocurrencies is a feature, not a bug.
Read more...Pelosi Advisor Proposes Non-Binding Arbitration as Road to Lowering Drug Prices
Team Dem contemplates non-binding arbitration as a fix for high drug prices. Help me.
Read more...Climate Policy: On Buying Insurance, and Ignoring Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rethinking the analysis of climate change risk.
Read more...Cryptocurrency Firms Regularly Lose Codes and Money
Cryptocurrency is more vulnerable to theft and loss than most of its fans want to believe.
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