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“The Beat Cluster” was Fritz Leiber’s science fiction story about beatniks in orbit, published in 1961.
*It didn’t create a “spacebeatnik” subgenre, but probably it should have.
The midterms proved an abysmal disappointment for the Republican Party. Instead of the promised red...
In her new book, veteran Wall Street watcher and economist Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.
Ever wonder why it is that for most of the 21st century, no matter who is in the White House, no matter the state of the economy, and regardless of what ordinary people are suffering, money travels inexorably to the top?
If you find this baffling, you’re not alone. For many, it seems that the further we travel into this acutely challenging century, the political, economic, and social rules we thought we understood increasingly fail to apply.
Cartoon for The Washington Post
Anyone who had “License Plates Start War” on their 2020s bingo card might be in...
University of Bonn and Sciences Po economics professor Moritz Schularick talks to Rob about the soon-to-be-released book, Leveraged, which he edited based on papers from an INET-sponsored conference. The book takes a close look at what we have learned about the costs and causes of financial fragility since 2008.
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Rob Johnson:
by Herman Daly (posthumously) — Introduction by Brian Czech
Given the recent, tragic passing of Herman Daly, we allocate this week’s Steady State Herald to the wise words of Daly himself. From 2010-2018, Herman was a regular contributor to The Daly News, CASSE’s blog before the Herald was launched. (Herman’s modesty almost prevented us from naming the blog after him, but he was outnumbered by CASSE staff and board,
The post In Commemoration: A Sampling of Herman Daly appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.
by Kean Birch* Unicorns are private companies valued at over US$1 billion. The term was first used by venture capitalist Aileen Lee in 2013 and has since become a cultural trope of its own. According to the business analytics firm CB Insights, there were close to 1,000 unicorns in the world at the end of […]
A friend sent me this article documenting Sam Bankman-Fried’s now well known text exchange with Vox journalist Kelsey Piper. I couldn’t help but think of Alasdair MacIntyre’s characters. As MacIntyre put it in After Virtue: What is specific to each culture … Continue reading
U.S. gasoline prices have outpaced overall consumer prices in recent decades, but rising gas prices don’t appear to be driven by long-term growth in consumer demand.
My latest cartoon for The Boston Globe.
To combat persistently low wages growth, the Government has put forward its Secure Jobs Better Pay Bill, currently before the Senate. The most contentious reform within the Bill is ‘multi-employer bargaining’. We’ve heard employer groups call it a ‘seismic shift that will increase strikes’. On the other hand, unions are calling the reforms moderate. What
The post Three’s Company: What is multi-employer bargaining? appeared first on The Australia Institute.
Join us TOMORROW, Thursday, November 17 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, as we resume our normally scheduled call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.)
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Matthew Guy's Liberals, their cooker friends and accompanying media protection racket have run a cheap anti-Dan Andrews election campaign in Victoria, but will it make a difference? read now...I’m trying something a little bit different with this post with respect to the writing process… I’ve found myself writing less on the blog but still putting more longer format writing on other platforms such as Instagram and LinkedIn. I’m perhaps a carnival barker always in search of an audience. So this is being written […]
I have a new cartoon in this week’s print edition of The New Yorker:
As a researcher, I’ve tracked the ascendance of White Christian nationalism in the United States...
Cartoon for The Washington Post
The latest wages price index figures show that for the first time since 2013 wages grew by more than 3% in the past year.
The post Wages growth improves but real wages fall at a record rate appeared first on The Australia Institute.