Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Monday, September 07, 2020

Eat the Rich.

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It's an excerpt from A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics (Haymarket Books, August 2020), which I...
Friday, July 10, 2020

More dismal than Ayn Rand? "Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics."

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Photo credit: Slate . Meet the man credited with public choice theory -- which means being given little real choice when it comes to ol...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

"Milton Friedman was wrong. Capitalism doesn't foster freedom — it produces autocratic workplaces and tyrannical billionaires."

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To continue a barroom conversation ... a complete essay. --- Capitalist Freedom Is a Farce , by Rob Larson ( Jacobin ) Milton Frie...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

UK election aftermath: "Any radicalism that fails to ask the really thorny questions isn’t radical at all."

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It would be a mistake to read too much into the (soon to be dis-) United Kingdom's election. Something had to happen with respect to ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Even without Trump's one-percenters and Boris's Brexiteers, "Neoliberalism has reached its Brezhnev phase."

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Because the way out from detrimental neoliberalism isn't more of the same. What we are finding with Neoliberalism Economicus is t...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Deep reading, premises readied for questioning: "Money must become our servant, rather than our master."

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Gahan's okay with money as we know it.  Just about the first lesson any philosophy student learns is to question all the premises. ...
Friday, April 26, 2019

"Reaganomics killed America's middle class," and "the old deal that held US society together started to unwind."

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Photo credit. Following are two topics raised during the Tuesday "Chew On This" discussion about what divides Americans. T...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

"Why Marx’s Capital Still Matters."

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David Harvey's answers at Jacobin are clear and concise. Readers are urged to read the entire interview. It's very rewarding. ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

The morning Constitutional: "It is capitalism that must be overcome to solve its inherent inequality problem."

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Certain lessons therein. I'm old, and the memory gets hazy. Can someone refer me to to section of the Constitution where it stipu...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Long read, must read: "Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world."

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I've been holding onto this one in the hope that I'd come up with something glib to add, but I haven't. It's one of the...
Friday, July 07, 2017

Book: "The happy few: Why the 20%, and not the 1% are the real problem."

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The book is called, Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and ...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

7 Days of Piketty: Thursday, or "Squeezing the rich ... if the world introduces a Piketty Tax."

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I'm publishing seven days of links to web material about Thomas Piketty and his book,  Capital in the Twenty-first Century . Piketty ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

7 Days of Piketty: Wednesday, or "Piketty's Three Big Mistakes."

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I'm publishing seven days of links to web material about Thomas Piketty and his book, Capital in the Twenty-first Century . Today, ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

7 Days of Piketty: Tuesday, or "Egalitarianism’s Latest Foe: a critical review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century."

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I'm publishing seven days of links to web material about Thomas Piketty and his book,  Capital in the Twenty-first Century . Prior to...
Monday, April 17, 2017

7 Days of Piketty: Monday, or "The Geography of Populist Discontent."

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I'm publishing seven days of links to web material about Thomas Piketty and his book,  Capital in the Twenty-first Century . Prior to...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

7 Days of Piketty: Sunday, or "Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic."

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I'm publishing seven days of links to web material about Thomas Piketty and his book,  Capital in the Twenty-first Century . Piketty ...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

7 Days of Piketty: Saturday, or "All men are created unequal."

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I'm publishing seven days of links to web material about Thomas Piketty and his book,  Capital in the Twenty-first Century . Piketty ...
Friday, April 14, 2017

7 Days of Piketty: Friday, or "Capital in the Twenty-first Century' explained."

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My esteemed friend Kim Andersen has no tolerance for fake news; it's only the real thing for Big Kim, and as such, he forwarded to a g...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

"Instead of growth at all costs, a new economic model allows us to thrive while saving the planet."

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We've "been there," and only recently. What do you know? Chance the gardener was right, after all. Now, to continue the do...
Friday, April 07, 2017

What do you know? Chance the gardener was right, after all.

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- author unknown The book is Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Thin...
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