Mind over the matter
Teachers of pluralist economics need to foster argument that is sound, not shrill. Amy S Cramer and Laura Markowitz make a point. It’s the first day of the semester at …
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Why Capitalists Need Communists
The 2020s look set to be the decade of make or break. The big problems we face – climate change, inequality, job creation in the face of automation, housing shortages and pressures …
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
From the publisher: The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the …
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US half-shuts door to financial secrecy, opens new window
The US is the world’s second greatest contributor to global financial secrecy, according to the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index, only faring better than Switzerland in complicity in enabling financial …
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Fuck You
How do you win the votes of the duckers, divers and the insecure? I live in affluent West London and ran my own hedge fund business that profited from seeing …
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Significantly speaking
Stephen Ziliak has spent much of his illustrious career in economics examining the significance of significance – that is the statistical test of significance. It turns out how this test …
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A New Leaf
Michael Jacobs was a special advisor to Gordon Brown when the idea of the Green New Deal (GND) first emerged in the UK in 2008 as a green response to …
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How the NRA Profits From Divisive Politics
An investigation shows how the nonprofit NRA gives lavish gifts and contracts to board members and their families while losing millions of dollars of donor money each year. A deep …
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Open Season?
The debate in the US on economics in the policy sphere has suddenly exploded with discussion of the Green New Deal and taxation on the wealthy. Much of this is …
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No time for losers
Ayn Rand preached selfishness is a virtue. Her ideas have caused terrible harm says Tom London. No doubt, there have always been selfish people, who care only about themselves and who never …
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