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Top 25 Heterodox Economics Books

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Mon, 04/08/2025 - 20:18
Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867) Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development (1911) Nikolai Kondratiev, The Major Economic Cycles (1925) Gunnar Myrdal, The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (1930) John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory (1936) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944) Paul […]

Debunking mainstream economics

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Mon, 04/08/2025 - 20:10
An economic theory that does not go beyond proving theorems and conditional ‘if-then’ statements — and does not make assertions and put forward hypotheses about real-world individuals and institutions — is of little consequence for anyone wanting to use theories to better understand, explain or predict real-world phenomena. Building theories and models on patently ridiculous […]

The so-called ‘land of the free’ is now a failed state and heading towards totalitarianism

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Mon, 04/08/2025 - 17:34
Last Friday (August 1, 2025), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published their latest – Employment Situation Summary – for July 2025. What followed was somewhat extraordinary. The data and the revisions to the previous two months data releases (which is standard practice) showed that the US labour market is in decline. It starkly runs…

Sherlock was like "well, this didn't need the services of the world's greatest detective, but I guess I do normal cases now too," and Watson was like "Shh, don't say that too loud, someone might hear and I'm stewarding a brand here"

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Reclaiming the People’s War

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Mon, 04/08/2025 - 07:23

In the crisis-ridden autumn of 1936, the communist poet and critic Edgell Rickword wrote an editorial for the magazine Left Review: The sincerity of our protests at fascist brutalities can only be measured by the strength of our efforts to secure the right of the colonial peoples to govern themselves. And, as practical people, let […]

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 03, 2025

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Mon, 04/08/2025 - 04:12
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 03, 2025 by Tony Wikrent   Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] Trump’s […]

Those damn murderers

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Mon, 04/08/2025 - 01:25
Day after day, the Israeli regime reveals its brutal face as starving children become deliberate targets. For over 75 years, Israel has pursued a policy marked by systematic displacement and colonisation. Palestinian families have been driven from their homes, their land confiscated, and their future stifled under the iron grip of occupation. What remains are […]

Poem of the atoms

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Sun, 03/08/2025 - 08:07
. O day, arise! The atoms are dancing. Thanks to Him the universe is dancing. The souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy. I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is taking them. All the atoms in the air and in the desert know well, they seem insane. Every single atom, happy or miserable, Becomes […]