Nobel Prizewinners Work Toward Solutions Better Than Socalled Free Markets
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View ArticleSave Social Security and Medicaire - Support Bernie Sanders
Today the issue of tax cuts for the wealthy is once again front and center in Washington, as part of the debate over how to reduce the federal deficit. And Mr. Sanders is once again talking, carving...
View ArticleNobel Prizewinners Work Toward Solutions Better Than Socalled Free Markets
A Nobel for Planning?: “The combination of Shapley’s basic theory and Roth’s empirical investigations, experiments and practical design has generated a flourishing field of research and improved the...
View ArticleEconbrowser: If You Want Faster Growth...Get out of the Zombie Economy
As in the movie "The Sixth Sense," (in which many ghosts didn't know they are dead and only see what they want to see), for most Americans our auto centric suburban way of life is dead, but most of us...
View ArticleS'more thoughts on the marshmallow game and it's ramifications
Everybody reading this has probably run across the persistent (and well-subsidized) narrative that goes something like this: virtually all of the variability we see in wealth can be explained by...
View ArticleNancy Folbre: Contraceptive Economics - NYTimes.com
But unintended pregnancies – which account for about half of all pregnancies – have huge economic consequences for women’s employment, family welfare, public spending and children’s health. In a recent...
View ArticleGet Used to it T-Party, The Real America is No longer in the Boondocks
No, you cannot have your country back. America is moving forward.That’s the message voters sent the Republican Party and its Tea Party wing Tuesday night when they re-elected President Obama and...
View ArticleSimon Johnson: The Importance of Elizabeth Warren - NYTimes.com
One of the most important results on Tuesday was the election of Elizabeth Warren as United States senator from Massachusetts. Her victory matters not only because it helps the Democrats keep control...
View ArticleCalifornia Comebacks: First Steve Jobs, Now Jerry Brown
Of all the state election results across the nation, few can top the shocking good sense of California voters in approving temporary tax increases to raise $6 billion a year to shore up the state’s...
View ArticleThe God Glut - Frank Bruni has the Courage to Write What Many are Thinking
We Americans aren’t careful at all. In a country that supposedly draws a line between church and state, we allow the former to intrude flagrantly on the latter. Religious faith shapes policy debates....
View ArticleHelp Sooth This Obsessive Grammarian
I wasn’t always this way, but I spent a few years as an English teacher, which obliged me to bone up on fine grammar points. When most of my reading was confined to books and magazines, I didn’t see...
View ArticleSave Social Security and Medicaire - Support Bernie Sanders
Today the issue of tax cuts for the wealthy is once again front and center in Washington, as part of the debate over how to reduce the federal deficit. And Mr. Sanders is once again talking, carving...
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