Michael Perelman: Vietnam – Invitation to a Morass
How the Vietnam War helped usher in neoliberalism, financialization of the economy, and the use of military spending as stealth stimulus.
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European Voters Deliver the Revenge of the Nation-State
Were the results of the European elections a tremor or an earthquake?
Read more...Maggie Mahar: How Doctors Stymie the Wishes of the Elderly
A detailed picture of how doctors and medical facilities stack the deck against aged patients and their relatives.
Read more...Michael Perelman: The Rise of Free-Trade Imperialism and Military Keynesianism
On the economic and political origins of America’s stealth imperialism and military Keynesianism, as opposed to Keynes’ original version.
Read more...More Polite Handwringing About Student Debt Mess
The absence of serious discussion of an only-worsening student debt problem is troubling.
Read more...The Height of World War I Servicemen
Height in England before World War II was seen as a class marker. But is that the whole story?
Read more...Rhode Island Senate Considering “Maximum Wage” Legislation
Why Rhode Island’s maximum wage proposal is a potential big step toward reducing income inequality.
Read more...How Milton Friedman Fomented the Barmy “Corporations Exist to Maximize Shareholder Value” Myth
One of my pet peeves is the degree to which the notion that corporations exist only to serve the interests of shareholders is accepted as dogma and recited uncritically by the business press
Read more...An Empire in Decline, City by City, Town by Town
By Peter Van Buren, who blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during Iraqi reconstruction in his first book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. He writes at his blog, We Meant Well and has a new book Ghosts of Tom […]
Read more...General Mills Retreats an Inch on Its Mandatory Arbitration Overreach
Law Professor Adam Levitin argued that we peons should make counterclaims against General Mills’ overreaching arbitration policy.
Read more...When Will Big Business Figure Out That the Education-Industrial Complex is Eating its Lunch?
Yves here. This post points out how parochial Corporate America has become in its looting. Look at how some not-very-large changes in approach would leave those fat cats much better off! And they wouldn’t be so terrible for the rest of us either.
Read more...How the Junk Food Industry Preys on the Young in Emerging Markets
How the junk food industry tries to get its way with young children in India.
Read more...Don Quijones: “Uncreative” Destruction – The Troika’s Hostile Takeover of Europe
How the Troika is overriding national constitutions and popular will to strip-mine Europe’s periphery countries on behalf of banks.
Read more...University of Southern Maine, Facing Organized Opposition from Students and Faculty, Rescinds Proposed Cuts
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Good news, which I hope travels fast to other universities. Maine Sunday Telegram: University of Southern Maine President Theodora Kalikow on Friday rescinded the 12 faculty layoffs that had prompted weeks of protests, saying she’s open to alternative plans for finding up to $14 million in cuts. (I know! I […]
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Europe’s Latest Policy on Irish and Greek Banking losses – Two Swindles Too Similar for Comfort
The Irish and the Greeks are, in many ways, very different people. And yet, caught up in the Euro Crisis, their fortunes have become too close for comfort.
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