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Thursday, August 13, 2015

"Too Tall to Bow Down"

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There are "white supremacists" and then there are White Supremacists. In an interview with This Week in Blackness podcasters El...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Does World Peace Depend On Steny Hoyer and Ben Cardin of Maryland?

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That would be Steny Hoyer (D-MD), minority whip in the House of Representatives, reportedly still undecided about the Iran nuclear deal, as ...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Jobs Guarantee vs. Work Time Reduction

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Max Sawicky  says Matt Bruenig  is wrong about the Job Guarantee idea. Sandwichman wrote about this back in 2009, so I'm reposting a con...

Essentially Inarticulate: slouching "towards a radical democratic politics"

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It is precisely this polysemic character of every antagonism which makes its meaning dependent upon a hegemonic articulation to the extent...
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Bow Down, Weirdo Populist Economic Determinism

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"What choice was there for the workers between the fascist costume drama and a socialism that urged them to regard their own working c...
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Friday, August 7, 2015

Ideology and Economic Facts

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Letter from Friedrich Engels to Franz Mehring, July 14, 1893, excerpt: Ideology is a process accomplished by the so-called thinker conscio...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Circular Reference Warning: The Productivity Quotient

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Peter Frase has a post about the perennial "robots will take all our jobs" debate in which he makes, almost in passing, the cru...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Professor Richard J. Jensen Strikes (Out) Again

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The Teen Who Exposed a Professor’s Myth Miller opened up Rebecca’s thesis. He quickly realized all of the academics too busy to take on J...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Homo Socialis, A Big Special Issue Of ROBE

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I do not do this much, folks, but I am going to flagrantly advertise the special target issue of the Review of Behavioral Economics (ROBE) t...
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Dean Baker: "Don't Blame the Robots"

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"An important fact often left out of discussions on productivity and jobs is that the length of the workweek and work year is not ...
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Monday, August 3, 2015

US Public Opinon From 59-31% to 32-58% On Iran Nuclear Deal

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That is what has happened to public support versus opposition to the recently negotiated Iran nuclear deal between May 30 when the deal was ...

Brent Crude Price Below $50 Per Barrel First Time In Six Months

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This is according to the Wall Street Journal as of 9:59 PM BST, which I think was just before 4 PM this afternoon in the eastern US, just ov...
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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Workers Were Doing Fine Until We Took Over

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The Team Republican economist response to rising inequality appears to be denial. First up was Martin Feldstein : Any adult who was alive ...
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Feynman Has Something to Say About “Is Consistent With”

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Time to go on the warpath again (see here , here and here ) against the standard line in econometrics: this study “supports” my theory beca...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Izvestia Publishes Front Page Threat Against The Life Of Sergei Guriev

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Yes, you read that right.  This has just come out.  Front page story.  Not only has his life been threatened, but the story also has threate...
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