I’m a professor at Evergreen State College, currently on leave.  Last year I lived through the events that were captured on videotape and br...

This is personal and professional.  My wife and I have the third edition of our comparative economics textbook now in press at MIT Press.  W...

With 98% of the vote counted, reportedly (WaPo today) 52% of the vote in Catalonia has gone for pro-union (with Spain) parties, while 48% ha...

And maybe coming soon to the US as well, enough to make Orwell sit up and take notice. The first show of the 2016 season of the sci fi TV ...

The New York Times has a piece today on barriers to the replacement of internal combustion-powered vehicles to an all-electric fleet in the...

This holiday season I’ve heard several tales of woe from working class acquaintances, mostly self-employed, about Obamacare: how they are ju...

One of the few good things that appears to have happened in the conference committee on the generally awful impending GOP tax bill is that t...

This is an amazing piece of investigative journalism. Whatever you are doing, drop it and listen to the first three episodes. The fourth ep...

There are two aspects of this debate, one about the term, "Islamic State," and the other about the its application. So, until abou...

So for something not economics or politics, my oldest daughter and oldest grandson and I have invented a new game for three people, which we...

I’ve been posting a lot of critical stuff on gaps and faulty assumptions in the rhetoric and strategy (such as it is) of the US Left.  A rea...

The dishonesty ab out the Trump tax cut for the rich from certain Republican leading conservatives are been extensively noted so let’s not g...

There’s a theory about the sins and shortcomings of society: they are all due to our failures of consciousness.  If people were purer, gi...

There are at least two definitions of a speculative bubble.  The first, and most widely accepted, is that it involves a price of an asset th...

I haven’t seen anything yet to convince me that the Putin-Trump collaboration was a big deal.  Ugly and unprincipled, sure, but politically ...