Measuring Racial Segregation in Urban Consumption Using Online Activity
We use restaurant reviews posted to Yelp to study segregation of consumption along racial and ethnic lines in New York City
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Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching
In the case of the American South, residential segregation did not allow the black community to insulate itself from interracial violence.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: America’s Permanent Wars as Mere Background Noise
How the US media barely deigns to take notice of our neverending wars.
Read more...Bismarck’s Health insurance And Its Impact on Mortality
The model for today’s health insurance systems was Otto von Bismarck’s compulsory health insurance, introduced in the German Empire in 1884. That’s 1884.
Read more...What Will Replace Outdated Left and Right Economic Thinking? The Commons Paradigm
Why the commons paradigm offers an important and practical lens for re-imagining politics, governance and law.
Read more...Cheap Sexism and Intellectual Dishonesty about Marriage
A mini-tour of right wing phantasmagora about how oversexed men and insufficiently chaste women are the ruination of the economy.
Read more...The Situation in Puerto Rico: Power, Water, and PROMESA
Puerto Rico’s austerity under PROMESA begets power failure begets water contamination and disease
Read more...Bill Black: Marriage and the Jobs Guarantee
Conservatives are trying to blame low rates of marriage among the young on anything but the state of the economy and the job market.
Read more...EU Immigration – A Gateway Drug
Citizens have become far more sensitive to the perceived and real costs of immigration. Ignore those concerns and risk losing power.
Read more...Gentrification
Gentrification is less of an accident than you might have been led to believe.
Read more...Bill Black: Is Politico or Third Way More Divorced from Reality?
The Third Way confirms that the Dems care more about beating back the Sanders/pro middle class faction than winning.
Read more...Violence and the State: A Prelude
Our new normal of destabilization.
Read more...Where Have All the Workers Gone: Opioids and US Labor Force Participation
Increase in opioids prescriptions in the US possibly has significant impact on labor force participation rates for both men and women.
Read more...Brexit Makes Labour Exploitation More Likely in the UK
Negotiations on a future Brexit deal have barely started, yet EU workers across the UK are already finding themselves more vulnerable.
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