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Memenomics, by Said Dawlabani, is an enormously frustrating book, full of brash promises that it cannot fulfill. Nevertheless it offers much useful information, and a new way to think about society, politics, economics, and some of the larger problems...
by Mokurai
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on Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 09:00 AM PDT
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In slightly weird news, Women Who Code is shutting down! I know, tech is having problems everywhere, and especially websites are having to figure out funding streams. But WWC is far from just a website, and it seems like they still have plenty of...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 05:04 PM PDT
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Vladimir Putin’s disastrous Ukraine adventure has united Moscow’s foes, stunted Russia’s economy, and frayed Beijing’s ties with the Kremlin, a senior Communist-aligned academic said. Feng Yujun is Director of the Center for Russian and Central Asian...
by Wilson Dizard III
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 09:47 AM PDT
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Amid Dismal Science’s (economics’) myriad failures, the facilitation of the misguided “economy vs environment” framing, wrong-headed thinking about how to act on climate, overstating costs and understating benefits of climate action, and utter failure...
by A Siegel
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 10:54 AM PDT
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There's no such thing as a self-made rich person. Rich people may work hard (some of them work incredibly hard, others hardly work at all), but their work wouldn't be nearly as profitable - or might be entirely impossible - without the systems and...
by Barry Deutsch
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 08:41 AM PDT
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I don’t have to explain Andrew Sayer’s title, above, in any detail here. The ultra-rich lie, cheat, steal, and get laws written to protect their interest at any and all costs. They prate ...
by Mokurai
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 09:00 AM PDT
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by angryea
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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from my notes on Gandhi's Economic Thought by Ajit K. Dasgupta NY: Routledge, 1996 ISBN 0-415-11430-6 http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/gandhis-economic-thought.html [All notes from my readings in Gandhian or nonviolent economics can be...
by gmoke
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 08:21 PM PDT
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President Joe BIden sat down with Univision reporter Enrique Acevedo in the Oval Office for an wide-ranging interview that ran Tuesday evening. The interview comes after months of well-deserved criticism over an “exclusive” puff-piece interview Acevedo...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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The Republican party is materially fond of calling themselves the party of Lincoln. They pull on that thread, presumably to stitch together the appearance of their civil rights bona fides, without ever stating it. Saying we support black rights in this...
by ReasonaBill
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 12:17 PM PDT
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Donald Trump’s campaign reported pulling in $50 million dollars at a megadonor extravaganza last weekend held by billionaire hedge fund investor, and longtime Trump supporter John Paulson at his ...
by Walter Einenkel
86 comments
on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Political change might come from the tip of a spear, a nonviolent one. The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From JPMorgan to BlackRock by Scott Aquanno and Stephen Maher Verso 2024 Why Civil Resistance Works, The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent...
by annieli
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on Sun Apr 28, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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At the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, Josh Bivens took a look at economic performance back to 1949. What did he find? “There is a pronounced Democratic advantage in nearly every measure of macroeconomic performance. Positive indicators like...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 06:58 AM PDT
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The assertion that rapid rates of population growth somehow stimulate economic growth has been made by economists for a long time but achieved prominence during the Reagan Administration. As advocated by Julian Simon, Malcolm Forbes Jr. and others, the...
by populationmediacenter
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 06:49 AM PDT
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NYC has introduced a chat bot to answer questions about the laws around small businesses. �It is joke, constantly getting answers wrong in ways that will causes real harm to people. No, for the ...
by angryea
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Many of the billionaires who claimed they were “sorry” they voted for Donald Trump in 2020, supported other Republican primary candidates this past year, and denounced Trump’s attempted insurrection are all being wooed back to the MAGA fold, according...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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President Joe Biden spoke briefly on Tuesday about the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, referring to it as “a terrible accident” and promising federal support.�A container ship ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 02:15 PM PDT
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Florida has just put into law a bill that says any social media accounts for children under the age of sixteen must be approved by their parents. It is largely moving in a good direction, but as ...
by angryea
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Let’s take a look at no growth, post-growth economics and a steady state economy. For many of you, these terms are seared into your memory. For others, I am hoping they will inspire action to do things differently and show that we aren’t the only ones...
by populationmediacenter
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 09:11 AM PDT
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I really apologize for not meeting my deadline with a story. Too many balls, not enough hands.� Instead, an open thread, and hopefully some good discussion! I have often wondered about the various ...
by NeverEverAgain
157 comments
on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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