Tech Giants Trying to Use WTO to Colonize Emerging Economies
Tech titans like Google and Apple seek to create a “global” regime to prevent developing economies from protecting their companies or data.
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The Crisis Ahead: The U.S. Is No Country for Older Men and Women
Yves here. I imagine many readers are acutely aware of the problems outlined in this article, if not beset by them already. By any rational standard, I should move now to a much cheaper country that will have me. I know individuals who live most of the year in third-world and near-third world countries, but […]
Read more...How Hayek’s Evolutionary Theory Disproves His Politics
How critics of Hayek, like those of Marx, fixate on his politics and ignore his important economic insights.
Read more...Stop Talking Affordable Water and Start Talking Poverty
By David Zetland, who worked on water policy for 10+ years and is an assistant professor of economics at Leiden University College in the Netherlands. Originally published at Aquanomics Circle of Blue published this long, aggravating article of the efforts of activists, water managers and (far too many consultants) to “find a compromise” on the […]
Read more...MIT Professor Angrist Publishes Obviously Misleading Analysis of Uber Driver Economics….With Uber Chief Economist as Co-Author
More Uber boosterism masquerading as analysis.
Read more...Republicans Plan to Cut Food Stamps as Homelessness Rises in the US
Republicans want to take food out of children’s (and adults’) mouths by cutting food stamps. One likely result is an increase in homelessness.
Read more...Monetary Mental Illness
Puzzling over why more people don’t embrace Modern Monetary Theory.
Read more...Eastern Europe Showed How Neoliberalism Produces Reactionary Populism, Like Trump
Trump’s antecedents in Eastern Europe show how widening inequality and failed economic promises pave the way for reactionary politics.
Read more...Germany’s Dystopian Plans for Europe: From Fantasy to Reality?
For Germany, the idea of Europeanism has allowed its elites to conceal their hegemonic project behind the veil of ‘European integration’.
Read more...Tax Cuts, Wages and Salaries: Will Lower Taxes and Profit Repatriation Help Workers?
Debunking some of the claims of tax “reform” proponents, like that giving companies a tax break to repatriate profits will create jobs.
Read more...How Market Competition Really Works
One of the best models of competitive markets in an economy is an evolutionary one.
Read more...Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks and Jobs: An Application to Brexit
A conservative analysis, incorporating the impact on value chains, estimates the UK will face a 4.7% GDP fall in a hard Brexit scenario.
Read more...Exploiting the Elderly: Crapification and Long-Term Care Insurance, Genworth as Case Study
Genworth’s flagging long-term insurance business as a window into the challenges facing even the high-functioning elderly.
Read more...The Web Began Dying in 2014 – Here’s How
The Internet has changed considerably since 2014, and not in a good way.
Read more...The Republican Tax Plan
Economists discuss the Republican tax proposals and for the most part, find a lot not to like.
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