Monday, June 30, 2014

American Political Preferences Are Not Well Explained By Conventional Categories

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This article describes the political categories that are used by Pew in its political polling.  Pew does not divide Americans into left, ri...

A Warning About Growing Inequality From A Billionaire

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Nick Hanauer is an entrepreneur from Seattle who made billions by investing in successful start ups like Amazon.  He is not a technologist a...

Supply Side Economics As The New Bible In Kansas

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The far right has not been able to take over the federal government but it has a program in place to take over state governments.  This art...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Which Variation On Capitalism Will Survive And Dominate?

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The graph below (click to enlarge) illustrates that capitalist societies are quite different in their outcomes.  For example, the US produce...

The Difficult Task Of Conservative Intellectuals

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Conservative intellectuals have the following problem, which is aptly summarized by this quote from John Quiggen: The Republican party is...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Why Its A Good Idea To Fight Climate Change In A Depressed Economy

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Paul Krugman explains why conservative pundits have the economics all wrong about the timing of government investments that will reduce car...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

CEO's Are Highly Paid But Their Compensation Is Determined By Market Forces???

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It is impossible to look at the data on CEO compensation without reaching the conclusion that it has been rising at a very rapid rate relati...