David G. Blanchflower of Dartmouth and Alex Bryson of University College in London have just published a paper at NBER 30759 "Wellbein...

 Merry Christmas, you all. So, the 117th Congress is done, and Nancy Pelosi is ending her historic run as Speaker of the House.  It passed m...

At the beginning of this year, I posted a response to Martin Hägglund's This Life: Secular faith and spiritual freedom . In October I l...

 Back in the day, I used to give talks on child labor.  I would always begin by saying that boycotts and shaming of corporations, while unde...

 This is about a paper I have just written for a special issue to appear in a journal I used to edit about the late economist, Peter Flascha...

Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin died at age 96 on Nov. 30, curiously just as the worst outbreak of demonstrations to happen in China since...

 Will economic policy change much aa a result of the midterm elecrtions? After all, the GOP has taken the House of Representatives, if only ...

 Sorry you have not seen me here for awhile. My laptop on which I am able to post here was out of commission, but now has been fixed. Well, ...

Antisemitism has long been intermingled with movements against injustice and elite control.  This is because the most widespread image in th...

 Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman produced the video, "Television Delivers People" in 1973. It manifests a critique of tele...

 The recently completed onec-every-five-years Party Congress in China, which confirmed Xi Jinping for a third term as General Secretary of t...

 Maybe. An October 21 report in NK Daily says so, with further speculation on this matter on blogs that cover North Korea. Supposedly Kim Jo...

 If that come to pass, especially if GOP takes both houses, presumably they will be able to do it in the lame duck session, assuming that Ma...

 The death of a Kuidish-Iranian woman doe not wearing a hijab to cover her hair has led to weeks of demonstrations led by and mostly by youn...