“Greed”: Announcing Econ4 Video Contest Winners
Please watch the winning entries in Econ4’s video contest on the topic of greed.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
The Koch “Center for Free Enterprise”: A Slippery Slope Indeed
The Koch brothers see academia as yet another activity that adheres to the Golden Rule: he who has the gold sets the rules.
Read more...For First Time In Years, Labor Resistance Is on the Rise in America
Is the rise in labor unrest in 2015 a harbinger or mere noise in the data?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Michelle Alexander, the Black Community & the Hillary Clinton Campaign
Michelle Alexander and some other black political and opinion leaders challenge knee-jerk loyalty to Hillary Clinton. Will these doubts spread?
Read more...Can Mass Migration Boost Innovation and Productivity?
Mass migration is getting a bad rap. Is it entirely deserved?
Read more...Technology and the Future of Work
Discussions of technology-driven change fail to distinguish between productivity-enhancing technology and disruptive technology.
Read more...Chinese Communists and Wacko U.S. Right Want to Save Us from Girlie Men
Real men are evidently an endangered species,. Chinese communists and the American Enterprise Institute are in the vanguard of trying to fix that.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Pressure on Warren to Support Hillary Clinton
The hypocritical feminist project to strong-arm Elizabeth Warren into backing Hillary Clinton.
Read more...Adolph Reed on Sanders, Coates, and Reparations
Adolph Reed begs to differ with Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Non-Neoliberal Woman President Is Not One of the Choices
Hillary as a neoliberal is not your friend….unless you are a member of the 1% or on their meal ticket.
Read more...A Lesson for 2016: Upton’s Sinclair’s 1934 End Poverty in California (EPIC) Gubernatorial Campaign
Upton Sinclair put forward radical plan for combatting the desperate conditions of the Great Depression. They illustrate how blinkered our vision has become.
Read more...New York Review of Books on How Oligarchs Use Philanthropy to Advance Their Social Agendas (and a Shout Out to NC)
How the 0.1% are using philanthropy as a Trojan Horse for social engineering.
Read more...The 0.1%’s Marie Antoinette Moment
A card-carrying member of the 0.1%, Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone, has reveled himself to be dangerously out of touch.
Read more...Gauis Publius: The Clinton Campaign Speaks to the New York Times
The Clinton campaign is too obviously interested in its success over that of the nation. And despite the Sanders surge, it still believes in its inevitability.
Read more...Why Letting the Koch Brothers Create a “Center for Free Enterprise” at Public University WCU is a Bad Idea
The hidden strings in a Koch Brothers gift to Western Carolina University, and why its faculty is opposed.
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