If I had someone to blame for my lack of posting these last couple months, other than myself, it would be Peter Radford. His excellent posts at the RWER blog have lulled me into a sense of inadequacy, or something. Maybe there really is a lump of labor when it comes to the blogosphere. But [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Radford on McCloskey
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economic Crisis, financial crisis on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is pleased to announce that it will hold the second annual Minsky Summer Seminar June 18–26, 2011. The Seminar will provide a rigorous discussion of both the theoretical and applied aspects of Minsky’s economics, with an examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the current economic and financial [...]
GOP Will Regret Anti-workers Overreach
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Labor on March 9, 2011 | 8 Comments »
With the Democratic senate caucus still away in Wisconsin, the GOP caucus has found a loophole to pass its anti-worker bill. The policy and social justice implications of this move are obvious, and it’s unnecessary to belabor them here; simply put, this is a bad, bad, bill- a brash political move to seize the upper [...]
The Social Animal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, behavioral economics on March 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
David Brooks was interviewed on National Public Radio this week, not for the usual political commentary, but to discuss his new book, The Social Animal, which in fact does look worth checking out. When asked by Robert Siegel what sparked his interest in probing the human mind, he responded: Mr. BROOKS: Failure. I covered a [...]
“Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crime, financial crisis on March 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
These are just some great paragraphs from Matt Taibbi, and I should’ve posted them several weeks ago: So there you have it. Illegal immigrants: 393,000. Lying moms: one. Bankers: zero. The math makes sense only because the politics are so obvious. You want to win elections, you bang on the jailable class. You build prisons [...]
Supply and Demean
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Comics on March 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Stephen Colbert offers a great economic analysis of income disparities in his “The Word” segment from March 1st. The main focus of the segment is on income disparities in the U.S., starting with a recent Mother Jones issue which called the U.S. economy a “Vampire Economy.” Mother Jones also provides a neat webpage with “eleven [...]
