In celebration of Karl Marx's 200th birthday, Sandwichman is offering a $200 (Canadian) prize to the first person who answers the follow...

“Guaranteed jobs programs, creating floors for wages and benefits, and expanding the right to collectively bargain are exactly the type of ...

Let me say that if Donald Trump is able to finalize a serious agreement in Korea that brings an official end to the war there as well as est...

My title was the heading of Figure 19 in something from Deutsche Bank that has John Cochrane all stressed out over a pending debt crisis a...

Yes, it is May Day, time to think about workers and socialism, while Vladimir Putin gets himself inaugurated for another term as President o...

Last week I was browsing through one of the books on the shelf at work, which had in it three essays by the inter-war German Marxist Karl Ko...

There has been a bit of commotion recently about the Job Guarantee idea (AKA employer of last resort). I don't consider myself an oppone...

This past Friday there was yet another retirement conference, this time honoring "Mr. Social Capital," Robert D. Putnam, who is re...

Last weekend I attended a conference at NYU Law School on "Behavioral Economics and the New Paternalism, organized by Austrian economis...

With the news that Rudolph Giuliani has joined "Mobster Don" Trump's legal defense team, it seems that it would be timely to a...

Today’s New York Times has a fine article by Manil Suri about math education and the development of reasoning skills.  Its concluding point...

The REAL Trump pee-tape was a urine sampling pyramid scheme. " Whatever happened to Trump neckties? " asks  Zane Anthony, Kathry...

That would be Richard A. Easterlin, age 92, retiring this spring from the U. of Southern California after being there since 1981, following ...

This post follows the previous one and explains why I get so exercised about the politics of equity at a place like Evergreen State College...

Who knew when I posted this : We could go back to 2002 and how the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 ...