IN Exodus it is reported that while Moses spent time on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments from Yahweh, the people of Israel down b...

 After tweeting repeatedly for some time about bitcoin and the originally satirical degecoin, both of which have gone up massively in the pa...

 A social trend can lie dormant for years, gradually expand and then suddenly explode as if following a hidden exponential growth curve.  Re...

 On the last day it could, the Trump State Department officially declared that the Peoples' Republic of China is committing "genoci...

 The Biden admin has not yet made moves to undo elements of Trump's trade war, and some parts of it may not get undone, perhaps especial...

 That would be the nuclear football, the one that a President of the United States can use to destroy all human life on the planet with by p...

The mantra of the moment is that impeachment is not a trial and shouldn’t be governed by the same rules that apply to a court of law.  True,...

 The movement to make Bitcoin into a de facto form of money has taken a step forward when Elon Musk declared that he would be purchasing ove...

 Given the massive impetus the presidency of Donald Trump gave to authoritarian and anti-democratic forces around the world, it is worth see...

Capital itself is the moving contradiction, in that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other...

I share some of Summers' concerns about the magnitude of Biden's proposed stimulus.  The comparison to the January 2009 situation is...

  I did indeed post Dilke's work . Then I reposted it. Then, ten years later, Contributions to Political Economy reprinted Dilke's...

 I have just learned that old friend Michael Perelman has "passed quietly in his sleep" (not reported of what) on September 21, 20...

 Actually I think focusing on such questions can be a not very useful exercise, but here I am asking it anyway.  As it is, indeed the People...

 You have to read it to believe it.  An excerpt: Whereas history tells us that after George Washington appointed Major General Benedict Ar...