Marx mentioned, "the theory of surplus population and surplus capital," parenthetically, in the Grundrisse and "surplus popu...

 Abner Linwood Holton, Jr. has just died at age 98 at his home in Kilmarnock, Virginia, near Richmond. There is a certain irony in this as a...

From: Tom Walker Sent: October 27, 2021 3:49 PM To: scott.a.wolla @stls.frb.org Subject: Lump of labor fallacy Dear Scott, I just came acro...

How many Trained Marxists™ know there is no "socially necessary labour time" in the Grundrisse ? I didn't. When researching th...

 In Virginia there is an election for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and the whole House of Delgates, while the State Sena...

Usually, a question in the title of an article is a teaser and the answer is almost always "no." Not in this case. The standard ar...

Yes, Turkmenistan is among the few nations on the planet claiming to have not had a single case of Covid-19, along with the DPRK, aka "...

The three quotes above are from, respectively: 1. William Godwin 2. Charles Wentworth Dilke 3. Karl Marx. There was a very pronounced influe...

 Apparently yesterday Janos Kornai died in Budapest at the age of 94. He was the greatest analyst of the socialist system there was. Indeed,...

 I have posted on this previously, but not for awhile. The main meme is that for reasons I mostly do not get, Biden has been carrying over a...

 So the recipient are half of it to David Card for his 1994 study with the late Alan Krueger, who committed suicide not too long ago, on min...

 German economist Peter Flaschel died yesterday at age 78.  I am not sure precisely of what, although it was not Covid-19.  He had been in d...

 This is one of those rare times when I post here about my academic research, but on this matter, well, I think this is of broader interest ...

 I have resisted posting something like this, but while I have yet to see anybody else suggest it, this possibility has been on my mind now ...

I was a bit skeptical of the Global Forum on Democratizing Work. It seemed to me that rushing into an online conference was perhaps a bit ov...