“When Detroit gives us lemons, we give them billions of dollars” Jon Stewart
Archive for March 31st, 2009
Lemon Aid
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Responsibility
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Whither History of Economic Thought?
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Over at Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy (h/t Mark Thoma), Gavin Smith posts about how the discipline of economics has evolved in such a way that the relevance of its own history is in question. I’ve obviously been posting a lot about these sorts of questions in the last few months, so I’ll jump at this [...]
A Violent Downturn
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This article investigates the relationship between the economic crisis and the recent spat of mass-killings, muder-suicides, and upsurges in domestic violence claims. one study released Monday in Florida finds a link between domestic violence and economic tragedies like job loss and foreclosures. The Sunshine State saw an almost 40 percent jump in demand for domestic-violence [...]
