economics

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  5/18/2020
  

  Keynes and the Good Life

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  Keynes did not give us a checklist of dos and don’ts other than general ones: Don’t waste human talents and physical resources through wanton unemployment, avoidable wars, or breakdowns of social and trade relations.

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• SOURCE: The Correspondent
  5/14/2020
  

  The Neoliberal Era is Ending. What Comes Next?

  by Rutger Bregman

  From higher taxes for the wealthy to more robust government, the time has come for ideas that seemed impossible just months ago.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/9/2020
  

  Rutger Bregman: The Dutch Historian who Rocked Davos and Unearthed the Real Lord of the Flies

  The historian offers a hopeful view of human nature in his latest book, "Humankind." It couldn’t have come at a better time.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  4/9/2020
  

  The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back

  by Adam Tooze

  The latest U.S. data proves the world is in its steepest freefall ever—and the old economic and political playbooks don’t apply.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/13/2020
  

  What Biden Learned the Last Time the World Stopped

  He oversaw the 2009 economic recovery for Barack Obama. If he wins the presidency, his first task will be to perform an encore on an even more daunting scale.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  4/1/2020
  

  America Is Ailing—and Leading the World

  by Adam Tooze

  The coronavirus pandemic has been a humiliation for the United States—and confirmation of its unmatched international power.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  3/27/2020
  

  Coronavirus Is A Defining Test And American Government Is Failing It

  by Zach Carter

  Donald Trump and this virus are only the proximate causes of our coming misery. A society that has devoted itself to escalating inequality is becoming ungovernable.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2020
  

  We’ve Never Been Here Before

  by Adam Tooze

  There are historical analogies to this kind of collective shutdown, but they are not attractive.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/24/19
  

  Whatever Happened to Moral Capitalism?

  by Michael Kazin

  Let one loyal, if anxious, Democrat offer a solution: “moral capitalism,” a system that, in the words of Congressman Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts, would be “judged not by how much it produces, but how broadly it empowers, backed by a government unafraid to set the conditions for fair and just markets.”

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• 3/24/19
  

  What Democratic Socialism Is and Is Not

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Of course, democratic socialism might not be what you want.  But let’s not pretend that it’s something that it’s not.

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• 9/15/18
  

  The Wrong Lesson We Learned from Enron that Led Directly to the 2008 Crash

  by Gavin Benke

  It’s worth remembering now with Jeff Skilling’s release from jail.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  

  An economic historian says the cost of neglecting history is huge

  by Richard Vedder

  The Ohio University professor, now in his 54th year of teaching, notes “In 1970, there were 100 history/social science graduates for every one majoring in parks and recreation; now there are fewer than four."

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  7-30-18
  

  The Ugly Side of Poland’s Booming Economy

  “The problem is that young people get used to hate speech. Some people don’t like chips, some people hate Coca-Cola—and some people hate the Jews.”

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• 6/3/18
  

  They Once Were the Future, then the Lowell, Massachusetts Textile Mills Went Out of Business

  by Robert Weible

  But they weren’t forgotten.

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• 6/10/18
  

  Who Benefits from the “Booming Economy”?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Soaring wealth and incomes for the few do not automatically translate into better lives for the many.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  4/25/18
  

  Is Economics Going Back To The 1800s? Maybe So.

  by Simon Constable

  Economics historian Robert Wright says three long-discredited ideas  –  Tariffs, the Gold Standard, and Slavery as an engine of economic development  –  are now back in fashion (to a certain extent).

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-8-18
  

  Strong Economies Lift Presidents. Trump Seems an Exception.

  His approval ratings reflect political weakness despite good news on several fronts.

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  1-2-18
  

  How Corporations Use History to Their Advantage

  Companies can reach into their archives to reaffirm their culture and demonstrate a differentiating legacy.

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• 12/24/17
  

  It’s Not Mexico that’s the Problem. It’s Capitalism.

  by John Tutino

  Mexicans’ continuing search for sustainable lives and sustaining communities is proclaimed an assault on U.S. power and prosperity. This is a distraction.

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• SOURCE: AEI
  9-15-17
  

  Economics historian Joel Mokyr says it was culture that made the West rich

  They believed in studying nature to improve the human lot – a new idea in the 1500s, he says.