It’s official, as a follow up to a previous post, and the buyout on the six remaining years of Weis’ contract could be as much as $18 million. Failure seems to be a popular way to make loads of money these days.
Archive for November, 2009
Sack like a champion today
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Plaid Friday
Posted in Uncategorized on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not everyone is buying into “black Friday” these days. In Oakland, there has been an effort to encourage shoppers to think about an alternative type of shopping. They could show support by wearing plaid while doing their shopping. Oakland’s independent businesses are asking residents today to bypass “Black Friday” and celebrate “Plaid Friday” instead, by [...]
Naomi Klein to Tackle Climate Change
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ecological economics, environmental economics on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Following up on my last post about carbon commodification, I’ve read that Naomi Klein (author of No Logo) is going to take on the free market approach to climate change in her next book: The Toronto-based journalist and activist says advocates for market-based solutions like carbon trading will face-off against those who believe a longstanding [...]
Hike ND
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With all of the talk about the future of the ND football program and coach around campus and in the New York Times (here and here), I thought it might be time to take another look at the economics of the program. A recent Scholastic article by Marques Camp looked at “The big business of [...]
Carbon as the Next Fictitious Commodity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ecological economics, environmental economics on November 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A friend who works in energy consulting (specifically focusing on carbon offsets) has sent me a thought-provoking and troubling paper on cap-and-trade legislation and the weaknesses of the carbon market/offset system it creates. Larry Lohmann, the offer of the paper, casts a political economy lens on this system and critiques it in light of the [...]
About That Expansion
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I suppressed my urge to use scare quotes in the title of this post, but could not suppress the urge to at least note that scare quotes are applicable. Why? Even before the recession, more than one in five Americans could not afford to pay for basic needs without help from family, friends or outsiders, [...]
More Coops?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, Labor on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At Economix, Nancy Folbre writes about an agreement between the United Steelworkers and Spain’s Mondragon Cooperative to begin manufacturing cooperatives in the US and Canada. The United Steelworkers is the largest industrial union in the United States, with 1.2 million workers. Its ranks have been devastated by the decline in domestic steel production, and it [...]
Neocolonialist Quote of the Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Corporations, Iraq on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From the NYTimes: America’s war in Iraq has been good for business in Iraq — but not necessarily for American business. American companies are not seeing much lasting benefit from their country’s investment in Iraq. (emphasis mine) Investment? Or invasion? Are they saying the war wasn’t a good business strategy?
Berlin Retrospectives and Rethinking Marxism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, Economic Crisis, Marxian, pedagogy on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know next to nothing about the history that led up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and that seems to be on everyone’s minds these last couple days with the 20th anniversary. Many on the more radical left seem to be approaching the event with a great deal of caution. I don’t know [...]
