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Without public consultation, the boundaries of freeports have been expanded to cover much of the country. What does this mean? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th August 2022 Democracy is the problem that capital is always striving to solve. To maintain its rates of profit, it seeks to drive down the taxes it […]
The world’s most damaging farm products? Organic pasture-fed beef and lamb. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th August 2022 Perhaps the most important of all environmental issues is land use. Every hectare of land we use for extractive industries is a hectare that can’t support wild forests, savannahs, wetlands, natural grasslands and other […]
To this government, the duty of care is an abomination. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th August 2022 Has Boris Johnson ended his holiday? It’s hard to tell. He was never committed to government, even during national emergencies, as his serial absence from Cobra meetings at the beginning of the pandemic revealed. Now, […]
“The Egyptians have pyramids, the Chinese have the Great Wall, the British have immaculate lawns, the Germans have castles, the Dutch have canals, the Italians…
Generally, a remote area refers to a location that’s difficult to access. It may refer to a rural location, such as the desert or countryside. It can also mean a place that isn’t easily accessible by vehicle, like offshore or mines. While this area has road access, they are usually far from the nearest police…
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Backward-looking data and regular data revisions are among the challenges facing the NBER when determining whether the economy is in a recession.
I’ve been having a bit of a rollercoaster time at work; nothing you need to bother your giant head about, but this week has been a mix of incredible highs, and also some really hard introspection. One of them, which will seem silly to regular readers of this blog (who are the only ones left […]
Listening to politicians talk about the UK energy crisis is like watching bald men fighting over a comb. None of them get to the root cause - a shortage of natural gas. When you take an MMT view, that’s where you start.
Found some copies of my classic Pearl Jam posters and just put them up on my site for sale. You can find them here
U.S. neighborhoods can be placed into five groups based on residents’ education and race. How do those neighborhoods vary by economic outcomes?
Ruskin scholar Jeffrey Spear, author of “Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and his Tradition in Social Criticism,” discusses how the insights of a key 19th-century thinker can help us build a new paradigm for protecting the planet – and save us from ourselves.
Since I first wrote about the Victorian art and social critic John Ruskin, economics, and the environment over 40 years ago, the foreboding cloud of ecological disaster then on the horizon has become experiential climate change. Human activity has initiated the 6th great extinction in the planet’s history threatening at least 25% of Earth’s species and, if not humans as a species, certainly the ethos of perpetual economic and population growth dependent on fossil-derived fuels and chemistry.
Everyone at INET is saddened by the news that our colleague Lance Taylor passed away on Monday, August 15th, 2022. His loss leaves a giant hole in our hearts as well as in the field of economics. His talents and achievements were prodigious and we will miss his cheerful and inspiring presence. Words help little on such occasions, but we would like to extend our condolences to his wife Yvonne, and his children Signe and Ian.
To commemorate his contributions, here are a few noteworthy articles, events, videos, and interviews by, with, or about Lance Taylor.
In Disaffected, scholar Xine Yao looks at the racial history of unfeeling. Trained as a nineteenth century Americanist, Yao, much like Lauren Berlant, shows how…
Data suggest that lending activity in variable-rate bank loans to U.S. firms responds more strongly to rising and falling benchmark interest rates like LIBOR.
If We Want Humanity to Survive, We Must Cooperate With China Nathan J. Robinson & Noam Chomsky August 15, 2022. Current Affairs. “China is our enemy,” Donald Trump declared repeatedly. “These are our enemies. These are not people who understand niceness.” Accordingly, when Trump was in office, his administration “took a sledgehammer” to U.S.-China relations, which “reached their […]
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In this Women in Economics Podcast episode, Catherine Mann shares how data led her to a career in economics and the importance of mentorship in the field.
This week’s Sunday cartoon (above) says it has 11 Secret Symbols but I just
created an answer key for it and I see that it has 12. Sorry about that.
by Fred Block* John Vail has written a remarkable book about Karl Polanyi’s concept of the double movement. It is a careful exegesis of Polanyi’s argument that also puts that analysis into dialogue with subsequent scholarship in history, politics, and sociology. Vail is appreciative of Polanyi’s insights, but he is certainly not uncritical. He points […]
John talks all things TCS for 100 minutes!