The historian Howard Zinn died this week at 87. His _The Peoples' History_ of 1980 altered how many viewed US history, bringing to atte...

Many companies have tried to reduce taxes by incorporating abroad -- the so-called Bermuda Inversion. Wouldn't the banning of foreign c...

Richard Smith is a historian who is doing a biography about my mother's cousin. Here is his timely piece about the corrupting influence ...

The SEC has voted to require something that firms should already be doing proactively, assessing their vulnerability to climate change and ...

This short section from my forthcoming Invisible Handcuffs discusses the ideological use of cost-benefit analysis. http://michaelperelman.fi...

It’s not like this is a new issue. By now, you’d think that journalists would have figured out what’s what in the realm of forestalling cli...

You may remember the scene from “Take the Money and Run” (if you’re as old as I am). Over and over, as he was growing up, bullies would pul...

In broad outlines, the story is very simple. In bailing out the financial system without taking possession of more than a small equity posi...

Barack Obama gave the appearance of meekly appealing for bipartisanship, only to get kicked in his private parts. Yet, look how courageousl...

How should the Democrats respond to their collapse in Massachusetts? Harold Ford , who wants the Democratic nomination for Senate in New Yo...

According to this morning’s New York Times , in his state of the union address Obama will call for a cap on student loan repayments. The fo...

My article on Guard Labor is in the new issue of Dollars and Sense. It is extracted from my forthcoming book, The Invisible Handcuffs. http...

Mark Thoma http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-21.html links to a story from the WSJ entitled "F...

"Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like." -- often misquoted a...

"Much was said this night against the parliament. I said that, as it seemed to be agreed that all Members of Parliament became corrupte...