Meritocracy Legitimizes, Deepens Inequality
Why meritocracy ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2020
COVID-19 in Florida ~ 2020 electoral map ~ Biden and Hispanic voters ~ Trump in Tulsa ~ Amy McGrath ~ Woke insurance ~ Warehouse demand ~ Restaurant cash crunch ~ Container collapse ~ Stranded crews ~ COVID-19 vaccine ~ Microbiome of the nose ~ Black Lives Matter leaderless ~ The Third Precinct ~ Ruth Wilson Gilmore ~ The Death Star ~ Feral hogs
Read more...Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘New Normal’
Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?
Read more...Automation, Globalisation, and Vanishing Jobs
A new take on how automation and offshoring affect employment.
Read more...How the Disappearance of Union Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
How union support boosted black economic and social progress.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/16/2020
COVID-19 by regions (plus New York) ~ Biden veepstakes (Abrams, Bottoms, Demings, Harris, (Susan) Rice, Warren) ~ Chait gets something partially right ~ Retail, manufacturing, debt ~ PG&E “mass killing” ~ Dexamethasone ~ Masks ~ Albuquerque shooting ~ Case-Deaton on COVID ~ Git
Read more...No, We Don’t Need to Place Our Faith in Downloading Some Untested, Privacy-Infringing App as the Only Possible COVID-19 Slayer; Why Don’t We Look to Places that Have Successfully Limited Disease Spread and Copy Their Policies?
Ars Technica clutches pearls at poll showing decline in those willing to download privacy-infringing app to stymie spread of COVID-19.
Read more...Julian Assange Just Called. To Talk About the Pandemic’s Effect on Capitalism & Politics!
Yanis Varoufakis briefs Assange on the devolution of capitailsm.
Read more...Coronavirus Recovery: Why Local Markets are Key to Reviving Our Locked Down Town Centres
Local markets, not supermarkets, are a key part of reviving city centres as the UK emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
Read more...Links 6/15/2020
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Masks Masquerade
Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why people should be wearing masks. And yes, he provides a model.
Read more...Dicamba Drift: Trump EPA Defies 9th Circuit Ruling
EPA issues cancellation order to attempt to overrrule Ninth Circuit dicamba opinion; plaintiffs’ lawyers file emergency motion.
Read more...Links 6/14/2020
Unsung Heroines: Who Cares for the Carers?
Even before COVID-19, the world was facing a care crisis, a problem that is only worsening.
Read more...The Cost of Staying Open: Voluntary Social Distancing and Lockdowns in the US
Yves here. As various analyses have shown, in many places, governments implemented lockdowns after citizens had started restricting their activities to avoid contracting Covid-19. It’s useful to see economists address the question of what the cost of doing nothing or very little would have been. By Adam Brzezinski, DPhil (PhD) candidate in Economics, University of […]
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