The Strange Fate of Economists’ Interest in Collective Decision-Making
How economists studied collective decision-making after World War II, faced many impossibilities, and lost interest after solving them.
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Bill Black: Thomas Friedman Wants A “Center-Left” Democratic Party Based on Austrian Economic Myths
Thomas Friedman has managed to outdo himself on the downside.
Read more...Emergy (with an “m”) and Environmental Accounting for Maine’s Landfill
Policy implementing the Maine Solid Waste hierarchy should be justified using emergy as the unit of account, and not dollars.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Why this Job Market is Still Terrible: The Politically Incorrect Numbers Everyone is Hushing up
For individuals, the job market has barely improved since the Great Recession.
Read more...How ‘Competitiveness’ Became One of the Great Unquestioned Virtues of Contemporary Culture
How political authority has legitimated and promoted the questionable goal of competitiveness.
Read more...Contradictions at the Kitchen Table: Sanders, Obama, and Clinton at the Democratic National Convention
The power imbalance between labor and capital, as revealed by Presidential speeches at the Democrat National Convention.
Read more...The Immorality and Brutal Violence of Extreme Greed
Yves here. Please welcome guest blogger #SlayTheSmaugs. For those of you who have neither read The Hobbit nor seen the movies, “Smaug” is probably a meaningless word. In The Hobbit, Smaug is a massive and vicious dragon. He sits on a pile of gold and jewels that would bury a football stadium’s grass several feet […]
Read more...Sanders Delegation Plotting in Public and Secretly to Shake Up Democratic Convention
Many Sanders delegates are planning rearguard actions at the Democratic convention.
Read more...How California Targets Poor People of Color for Profit
California cities take a page from the Ferguson playbook: targeting poor minority group members people for fines, in this case traffic fines.
Read more...Rajiv Sethi: On Arrest Filters and Empirical Inferences
Wait ’til you get to “evidence” in quotes…
Read more...8 Countries Where Rampant Inequality Has Led to Violence
Yes, Virginia, inequality is dangerous but that does not stop many of the really rich from wanting more. us.
Read more...Meet the Middle Precariat
The rise of the “middle precariat” is another sign of how badly pay levels and workplace protections have eroded.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: The Opioid Epidemic and “the Looting Professional Class”
The professional classes as a transmission vector in the opioid epidemic.
Read more...The Sanders Revolution: North Dakota as an Example of the Long Tail of Grass Roots Activism
Incredible as it may seem, North Dakota’s progressive era Nonpartisan League influences state politics to this day.
Read more...Crisis After Brexit: Let Us Put An End to the Old Europe of Denigrators
Europe’s tall order for combatting Brexit: “What is called for is a union so good that people will want more of it.”
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