Many serious links today, and struggling to find the diversions… Serious Links David Westbrook has some real talk on Afghanistan (First Things) An interview with John Bellamy Foster on “Marx’s Ecology” (MRZine) A critical reading of Dambisa Moyo’s sensation Dead Aid (MRZine) Supervisor sympathy: a new kind of civil disobedience? (Boston Globe) Ta-Nehisi Coates on [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Friday Links: Hoppin’ Mad Edition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Friday links on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Officially official
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Notre Dame on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The academic council voted to close ECOP. I don’t have details yet, and more editorializing will follow. A quick note, though, that the already student-free process further spat at the notion of student input. Yesterday, the Student Senate passed a resolution: “[The Senate] votes unanimously to pass…a resolution regarding the dissolution of the Department of [...]
Millennials Relatively Pro-Government?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Catherine Rampell at Economix has a post on Pew Research Report’s study (pdf) of generational divides in views towards government. She pulls out a number of interesting tidbits. The main finding is that, Based on the 2009 survey data in this report, Millennials appear to be more pro-government, pro-regulation and pro-market-intervention than older generations However, [...]
The Votes are in…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economic Crisis, Economic Debates, financial crisis on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman, and Larry Summers, in that order, have been judged the economists most responsible for causing the Global Financial Crisis. The 7,500 voters at the Real World Economics Review blog have thus bestowed on them the Dynamite Prize in Economics. I voted for Greenspan, but my other selections of Eugene Fama and Robert Lucas earned [...]
Utterly Indefensible
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged human rights on February 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Foreign policy/war crime issues are generally outside the scope of my competency, but sometimes, the facts can speak for themselves. the Department of Justice released its report on John Yoo, the author os the legal torture memos in the Bush administration. Spencer Ackerman points to what (I hope) is the most galling part of the [...]
Putting the Brakes on Offsets: Three Major Concerns
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ecological economics, environmental economics on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The cap-and-trade scheme under consideration in Waxman-Markey relies heavily on carbon emission offsets, whereby developed countries buy the right to emit more by offsetting emissions elsewhere. Offsets carry a number of issues, which I’ve begun to discuss in the context of cap-and-trade here and here. Three aspects I’d like to talk a little more about [...]
Friday Links
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Friday links on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some links for your Friday enjoyment. I have a post in the pipeline about carbon offsets, so keep an eye out for it if this topic interests you. Serious Links Self-referential/promotional PM Update: Aforementioned post on offsets There are renewed calls for a tax on livestock emissions from FAO – Financial Times Is [...]
The Vampire Squid and the Double-Dip
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Corporations, Economic Crisis, financial crisis on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When Matt Taibbi published his Rolling Stone piece about Goldman Sachs, a number of people accused him of being sensationalist and even misleading about Goldman’s influence and malfeasance. The enduring image from that story was the Vampire Squid, a giant and blood-sucking creature that will seek (and succeed at) profitting off of pretty much anything. [...]
“The Cleveland Model” and Cooperatives
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, cooperatives, Corporations on February 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Gar Alperovitz, Ted Howard, and Thad Williamson, who study and work towards alternative economic models, have an article in The Nation today a rise of worker-owned cooperatives in Cleveland. Something important is happening in Cleveland: a new model of large-scale worker- and community-benefiting enterprises is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities [...]
Friday Links: Digging out Edition
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Have a great long weekend! Serious Links Daniel Little posts on work councils and on the inexact science of economics. Larry Becker’s review of Bert Westbrook’s Between Citizen and State. Annie Lowrey on the sad reality of Haiti, one month later. Sebastian Jones’ must-read on the lobbying-media complex. Chris Hayes breaks down the stimulus with [...]
