Category Archives: Academic Left
Ex-Guerrilla, Pot-Legalizing, Champion of the Poor: Uruguay’s Mujica Steps Down
Ex-Guerrilla, Pot-Legalizing, Champion of the Poor: Uruguay’s Mujica Steps Down Post Categories: Photo News RT | Monday, March 2, 2015, 6:10 Beijing Jose Mujica. (Reuters/Andres Stapff) Uruguay’s president, Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former guerrilla who lives on a farm and … Continue reading
Downton Abbey economics
Downton Abbey economics March 3, 2015David F. Ruccio from David Ruccio If you watched the Downton Abbey Season 5 finale, you will have seen the elaborately staged grouse shoot: The bird shooting party is an extraordinary example of what life … Continue reading
Evidence of intelligent life in the economics profession [STTPML:??]
Evidence of intelligent life in the economics profession March 3, 2015deanbaker1 from Dean Baker Last month, former Clinton Treasury Secretary and top Obama adviser Larry Summers ripped into those arguing that more education is the answer to the country’s inequality … Continue reading
WHY DOES THE FBI HAVE TO MANUFACTURE ITS OWN PLOTS IF TERRORISM AND ISIS ARE SUCH GRAVE THREATS?
WHY DOES THE FBI HAVE TO MANUFACTURE ITS OWN PLOTS IF TERRORISM AND ISIS ARE SUCH GRAVE THREATS? Post Categories: Opinion > Glenn Greenwald | Saturday, February 28, 2015, 11:21 Beijing The FBI and major media outlets yesterday trumpeted the agency’s latest counterterrorism … Continue reading
Economists pretending to know
Economists pretending to know March 2, 2015Editor from Lars Syll We are storytellers, operating much of the time in worlds of make believe. We do not find that the realm of imagination and ideas is an alternative to, or retreat from, … Continue reading
Marxism for the Few, Or, Let ‘Em Eat Theory
Marxism for the Few, Or, Let ‘Em Eat Theory by Doug Dowd Monthly Review, April 1982 The years since the Second World War have unquestionably produced more people in the United States who see themselves as Marxists, more Marxist periodicals … Continue reading
Greece and “Game Theory”
Game theory—in practice February 17, 2015David F. Ruccio from David Ruccio source* Back when I taught Principles of Microeconomics, I offered a lecture or two on game theory. Given how terrible most textbook presentations are, I used to borrowed heavily … Continue reading