‘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.
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A Theory or Two of These Grim Times
A theory about why things are a mess.
Read more...The Loss of Fair Play
How the importance of at least pretending to be fair has eroded, and why that matters.
Read more...An Extremely Online Christmas Sampler
A Boxing Day unwrap-up of bright shiny objects
Read more...The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
Another contributor to the gender pay gap: women undersell themselves.
Read more...“Where Should I Move To Be Safe from Climate Change?’
No place on Earth is immune from the consequences of climate change, but some regions will fare better than others.
Read more...Felix Rohatyn, an Icon of an Older Wall Street, Is Dead
Why Felix Rohatyn was and wasn’t typical of his industry.
Read more...Don’t Blame Corbyn or Brexit: Labour Failed To Rage Against the Hated Political System
A take on why Labour failed.
Read more...There is No Economics Without Politics
Debunking the pretense that the economics discipline is neutral or objective.
Read more...‘Hurricane Truthers’: Bonkers Conspiracies Are Putting Lives in Danger
First ant-vaxxers, now hurricane skeptics……
Read more...A Window into European Versus US Management
Evidence keeps accumulating that American management is rotten.
Read more...Questioning Innovation
Why innovation isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Read more...The China Cables: Leaked Classified Chinese Documents Confirm China Running Massive Concentration Camps to “Re-educate” Uighurs
A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
Read more...How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined
Neoliberal economics rests on a retrograde vision of society.
Read more...Under Swollen Tides, Venice Says More About Our Future Than Our Past
Venice illustrates how climate change will force a sort of triage upon us, and it won’t be just about our cultural heritage.
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