The Long Legacy of Frederick Douglass
A new book seeks to simultaneously situate Douglass among his contemporaries and the political challenges of today.
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Love at First Sight—Old Man Adopts Dog
On the importance of a dog as a friend.
Read more...Fracking, the Water Cycle, and Sacrifice Zones
Groundwater contamination with endocrine distruptors from fracking, and its uneven distribution
Read more...Links 8/24/18
Market Power, Low Productivity, and Lagging Wages: The Real Drivers
To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”
Read more...Wolf Richter: Here Comes the Second Wave of Big Money in the “Buy-to-Rent” Scheme
PE firms are paying prices at the peak of the market, amid ceaseless complaints that there isn’t enough inventory of homes for sale,
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/23/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, tariffs and manufacturing, youth vote, Pelosi, Cohen drama, Amazon logistics, New York taxi drivers, DNA, bees
Read more...Lump-of-Labor Fallacy: The Nastiest Motives of Nasty People
Why the lump-of-labor fallacy is bad for workers and for economics.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Greece Was Never Bailed Out and Remains in Debtor’s Prison – Bild Zeitung Interview
Yanis Varoufakis revisits the Greece 2015 debt negotiations and describes how Greece still wears the austerity yoke.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/22/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, NAFTA, Cohen case, alt-right support, home sales, containers, bitcoin, Boeing, yield curve inversions, Trump administration assault on workers, happiness, self-control, EVE Online
Read more...Social Activism and the Economics of Mental Health
Is the recent vogue for social activity as a remedy for mental distress well founded?
Read more...The Digital Freedom Pass: Emancipation from Digital Slavery
A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
Read more...Could Turkey Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis?
Why the currency crisis in Turkey is a due in part to the failure to take adequate corrective measures after the global financial crisis.
Read more...Gaius Publius: What to Expect from a Kavanaugh Court – Government-Funded “Religious” Education
Why Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court would be very bad news.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/21/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: IA-03, #Resistance tsotchkes, Tesla, Steam, quarterly reporting, Internet of Things, Allen’s Coffee Flavored Brandy, temporarily ope thread
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