Jeff Bezos’ Not So Excellent Indian Adventure: Modi Government Disses Inept Amazon
India’s top BJP ministers show cold shoulder to foreigner bearing “gifts”- the Amazon promise to create jobs- and push back accordingly.
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The Lords and Ladies of Discipline: An Interview with Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller explains how economics reinforces established power relations.
Read more...A European Green Deal Will Not Work Without Refocusing Productivity
A welfare-oriented European Green Deal needs to focus on resource and energy productivity, not raising labour productivity.
Read more...Integrating Black and White American Economic History
The interplay of black and white economic history: slaves, freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration.
Read more...The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
The myth of magical CEOs seems to break down in the public sector.
Read more...So, You Want To Live Tiny? Here’s What To Consider When Choosing a House, Van or Caravan
Discussing tiny house considerations.
Read more...UN’s Warning that Gaza Will Not Be a “Liveable Place” by 2020 Has Been Realised
The primary cause of this ‘unliveable’ environment is a highly restrictive Israeli blockade, now in its 13th year, which has reduced Gaza to the point of ‘systemic collapse’.
Read more...PolitiFact Wrongly Lets Biden Off the Hook: The Truth About Social Security Cuts
Going after yet another Biden lie.
Read more...Will Italy’s ‘Sardines’ Be Effective in the Upcoming Regional Election?
Will the populist Sardines shake up the Italian fake left, or will they just be a flash (mob) in the pan?
Read more...Homeless Californians Adapt to Camp Sweeps and ‘The Caltrans Shuffle’
A vignette from a homeless encampment.
Read more...Conservative Win in Britain Means More Than Economic Trouble Ahead
In an uncertain economic context, the Conservative election win means a loss for health and the environment.
Read more...Inequality and Trade: Simulation Evidence for 54 Developing Nations
A full-throated defense of more liberalized trade for developing nations…when the data is somewhat mixed.
Read more...‘Make No Mistake: Harvard Has the Money to Pay Us Livable Wages’
Harvard graduate students are on strike demanding fairer wages, adequate healthcare, and protections from discrimination.
Read more...Debt Has Not Been Caused by Low Interest Rates, but Higher Rates Would Topple the Whole World Economy
Yet more official hand-wringing about interest rates…when they aren’t the core economic problem.
Read more...What Is Next for Venezuela?
The standoff in Venezuela has reached a worrying juncture, with negotiations falling apart, side deals emerging and regional states rolling out new sanctions on Caracas.
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