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Forget the Great Depression - Look at reign of King John
Doing some research on the Magna Carta and King John of England today. Makes me think a better historical parallel for this moment than the Great Depression of the 1930s is the ruinous reign of ...
Demophilus 02/03/2009 18 7 3 46
Nouriel Roubini
Years ago, I used to think mostly about how to link up my skills and experiences and passions with social justice activists and social movements to prevent the calamity of the next Depression from ...
Demophilus 01/29/2009 38 15 2 36
Generational Theory - Us and our Grandparents
Sort of a response to new deal democrats economic analysis of the shit hitting the deflationary fan...we are going to have to relearn the survival skills our Depression-era grandparents knew,
Demophilus 01/16/2009 2 4 1 1
Reframing the Economic Meltdown - Could it be a boycott?
I'm a paralegal for an environmental law firm and have been doing research on corporate First Amendment rights as used to bludgeon state and local efforts to regulate and control harmful corporate ...
Demophilus 01/12/2009 34 11 1 23
Steady State Economics - Just Curious
In all the mainstream articles about the economy, the rescue plans, spurring "growth," creating jobs, infrastructure spending v. tax cuts, etc., I haven't seen any discussion of steady state ...
Demophilus 01/11/2009 5 4 - -
The Messy Suppression of Democracy - Circa 1787
How the Federalists forced Pennsylvanians to ratify the 1787 US Constitution - More from Terry Bouton's book - Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the ...
Demophilus 12/23/2008 37 8 1 4
1774 - Roots of Participatory Democracy in America
Going back even farther... 1774 - Residents of several Massachusetts Towns forced appointed British officials to resign their posts ...
Demophilus 12/18/2008 2 1 - 2
1776 and the Ensuing Crackdown
[First of a series of diaries linking today's struggles with the struggles of our founders - not the gentry who worked behind closed doors to draft the US Constitution, but the working class who ...
Demophilus 12/17/2008 3 9 - 10
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