Last Exit to the Road Less Traveled
What good is a conventional economics that tells us we can only create jobs and “profit” by literally destroying and despoiling the resources we depend on? That sounds un-economic to me
Read more...Category Archives: The dismal science
The Battle for Money Has Begun
Why the current fights over money, banking, and Modern Monetary Theory look like new ways to achieve bad neoliberal ends.
Read more...Worrying About the Deficit Is So 17th Century
Deficit hawks have been wrong for even longer than you thought.
Read more...Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual lynchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean.
Read more...How Media Amnesia Has Trapped Us in a Neoliberal Groundhog Day
How the media became the useful idiot of neoliberalism.
Read more...How Institutional Dysfunction Has Enabled Poor Economic Policy Thinking
How economic research practices and the role of academic journals helped create and reinforced an orthodoxy that was able to miss that the crisis was coming.
Read more...How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
Why “shareholders come first,” an ideology that became widely accepted only in the last 30 years, is a poor guide for managing companies.
Read more...To Reform Capitalism, Look to Marx
A high-level discussion of the re-imaging of the word “capitalism”.
Read more...The Forgotten Vision of Market Socialism
How two economists sought to reconcile Marx’s idea of common ownership with market mechanisms.
Read more...Globalisation, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
How do voter reactions to globalisation vary by skill level?
Read more...Tyler Cowen, Koch Brothers Funding, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, and Academic Freedom
Recent documents disclose how private money, from the Koch Brothers, among others, curtailed academic freedom at George Mason University, its Antonin Scalia Law School, and its associated Mercatus Center.
Read more...Want a More Equal Society? Universal Basic Income Might Not Be the Policy You Are Looking For
Why a Universal Basic Income won’t produce the benefits its boosters claim it will.
Read more...Marx and Modern Microeconomics
Marx gets some long-overdue credit.
Read more...Bill Mitchell: QE Failed in Japan
A short and devastating proof that QE was a bust in Japan.
Read more...Can Nudging Become A New Road To Serfdom?
Nudging and soft authoritarianism…
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