Marx and Modern Microeconomics
Marx gets some long-overdue credit.
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Gaius Publius: How the Democrats Could, and Probably Will, Blow 2020
How the Democrats are conspiring to snatch defeat from the jaws of a 2020 victory.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Macro and trade, Cosco Shipping, Sanders video empire, mid-terms, superdelegates, Jobs Guarantee, national activity, Toys ‘R’ Us, Sears, dreams, the scientific method, pigeon towers
Read more...Plastics Pollution Policies– “Bold” or Pathetic?
Some recent news on the plastics clean-up front– the situation remains dire. Will waste be the end of us?
Read more...Links 4/23/18
Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking
Belle Chesler, a teacher, writes about what students already know, and what they are contributing, in the fight for social change in a broken America.
Read more...Middle East Nightmare, Made in Washington
How the US is at risk of creating Armageddon in the Middle East.
Read more...Bank Watch: Wells Fargo Fined $1 Billion
The OCC and CFPB imposed $1 billion in fines on Wells Fargo Friday, continuing the kind and gentle treatment of bank transgressions pioneered by the previous administration.
Read more...Links 4/22/18
Global Warming’s Impact on Ocean Currents to Amplify Sea Level Rise
Real News Network interview with Levke Caesar, discussing how Atlantic ocean currents have weakened due to global warming and are closer to catastrophic collapse than any time in the last 1,600 years.
Read more...Can Nudging Become A New Road To Serfdom?
Nudging and soft authoritarianism…
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/20/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China’s subsidies, NAFTA, Thomas Frank, Holder 2020, Medicare for Some, tote bags, neoliberalism, terms and conditions, 420, the illusion of time
Read more...Why the Problem Is Economics, Not Economists
A critique of the monoculture in economics.
Read more...When Criminal Justice and Environmental Justice Collide
Environmental protestors,like other protestors, run the risk of facing jail time. That exposure is heightened by the fact that “out” groups have more reason to be demanding change.
Read more...China Warns Australia Against Being a Democracy
China throws its weight around even more casually than the US does, achieving the difficult task of making Trump look not so bad.
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