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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

There's something happening here...

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Monday, April 29, 2024

SEIZE THE MEANS OF INSTRUCTION!

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Fifty-four years ago  Les Temps Modernes  published an essay by AndrĂ© Gorz titled, "Destroy the University." I am posting it here ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Daniel Kahneman, RIP

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 Decisions, decisions...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

The Unknown Unknown Marx

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Toward the end of his 1968 essay, "The Unknown Marx," Martin Nicolaus quoted Marx's enumeration, in notebook 4 of his 1857-58 ...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Matt Huber's and Leigh Phillips's "classical Marxist critique" of Kohei Saito

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Prometheus Sculpture at Chernobyl I have expressed my disagreement with Kohei Saito's Slow Down and  Marx in the Anthropocene  in previ...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Lost in translation: Slow Down by Kohei Saito

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Kohei Saito's "manifesto" of degrowth communism was BIG in Japan, selling half a million copies in the first year and a half a...
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Sunday, December 24, 2023

In Memoriam: Robert Solow

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       One of the tallest trees in the economic forest has fallen:  Bob Solow has died at the age of 99. The modern study of economic growth...
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Monday, December 4, 2023

Seeing the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns

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It is a problem that has vexed and eluded Marxists -- and tantalized critics of Marx -- for a century and a half. If I am correct, Karl Marx...
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Friday, November 17, 2023

Growth below zero and the development of the productive forces

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Was Karl Marx a “degrowth communist” as Kohei Saito claims in Marx in the Anthropocene ? In a word, no. But the whole truth is even stranger...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Only DA Willis Can Save Us

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 Imagine:  Trump convicted of federal crimes by Jack Smith, sentenced to prison and imprisoned during 2024 election cycle, wins election and...
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Friday, May 5, 2023

Peter Pan to the rescue

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 I'm more and more convinced that the simplest way out of the debt-ceiling morass would be to start issuing perpetual bonds or consols (...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Escape from Muddle Land

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Let’s get the up-or-down part of this review over with quickly: Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What ...
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Sunday, March 12, 2023

Economic Insomnia? A Review of "The Guest Lecture" by Martin Riker.

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It’s a rare day when an economist plays the key role in a novel, and even rarer when one of the supporting players is John Maynard Keynes hi...
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