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Boeing’s Crapified Safety Culture: Airline Pressured, Overruled FAA Designees, Told FAA Late of Problems, Gave Inconsistent Stories to 737 Max Customers

The longer you look at Boeing, the uglier it gets.

Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance

The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy

Bill Black: If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren’t Used, What Can Warren Change?

Bill Black demolishes the notion that we can’t prosecute banksters with laws now in place. He there’s no need to pass new laws – as Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes – but instead to appoint regulators and legal officers who’ll use what we know about dealing with criminogenic environments to prosecute white collar criminals. And to provide them with support and resources.

How Far Can We Push Fiscal Spending in Light of MMT? Some Optimistic Reflections on the Potential For Economic Experimentation

Estimating where MMT’s inflation constraint on fiscal spending kicks in.

The Tragedy of the Electric Commons: How New York’s Renewable Energy Policy Failed, and What We Can Do Now

Why renewable energy has gone nowhere in New York state….the fear that it would produce a death spiral for utilities.

Boeing Kept Mum to Customers, FAA About Disabling of 737 Max Warning System

Even more bad facts about the Boeing 737 Max are coming out.

Boeing Might Represent the Greatest Indictment of 21st-Century Capitalism

Packed in the Boeing 737 fiasco are all the economic problems we face: crony capitalism, regulatory capture, offshoring and man vs. machine.

The Great Deformation: Why Income Inequality Has Become Intractable

Recent work on iinequality by Lance Taylor says this will be a particularly hard problem to solve.

We’ve Endured Years of Bragging From Trump—What Would an American Trade ‘Victory’ Look Like?

Will Trump declare a win if his trade representative fails to negotiate a viable long-term solution with Beijing?

Boeing’s 737 Max Debacle: The Result of a Dangerously Pro-Automation Design Philosophy?

A deep dive on the 737 Max fiasco.

Embedded Internationalism: The Only Way to Fight the Global Oligarchy

Rethinking internationalism as a way to counter the power of a rootless global elite.

Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.

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Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents

Boeing’s Crapified Safety Culture: Airline Pressured, Overruled FAA Designees, Told FAA Late of Problems, Gave Inconsistent Stories to 737 Max Customers

Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance

Bill Black: If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren’t Used, What Can Warren Change?

How Far Can We Push Fiscal Spending in Light of MMT? Some Optimistic Reflections on the Potential For Economic Experimentation

The Tragedy of the Electric Commons: How New York’s Renewable Energy Policy Failed, and What We Can Do Now

Boeing Kept Mum to Customers, FAA About Disabling of 737 Max Warning System

Boeing Might Represent the Greatest Indictment of 21st-Century Capitalism

The Great Deformation: Why Income Inequality Has Become Intractable

We’ve Endured Years of Bragging From Trump—What Would an American Trade ‘Victory’ Look Like?

Boeing’s 737 Max Debacle: The Result of a Dangerously Pro-Automation Design Philosophy?

Embedded Internationalism: The Only Way to Fight the Global Oligarchy

Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

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