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“Capital will not ignore a profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 percent profit will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 percent certain will produce eagerness; 50 percent,...
by bluesmissionary
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Worldwide, 1.1 billion women of reproductive age have a need for family planning. Of those, 842 million are using contraceptive methods, and 270 million don’t wish to have more children, but are not actively using contraception. This discrepancy...
by populationmediacenter
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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by angryea
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