Category Archives: despotic academia
US Senate Report on CIA Torture
Torture Report Finally Released Senate Intelligence Committee Summary of CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program Concludes CIA Misled Itself, Congress, the President about Lack of Effectiveness Committee Details 20 Most Frequent CIA Claims that Torture Stopped Terrorist Plots, Cites CIA’s Own … Continue reading
“Beware! Competition for Research Funds Can Kill You”
Beware! Competition for research funds can kill you December 5, 2014 from Grazia Ietto-Gillies What I am about to report is not specifically about the economics profession. However, it is an economics issue in that it is linked to: competition for … Continue reading
Calling All Rebel Economists!
Calling all rebel economists! December 3, 2014 from Richard Wolff This project is important and long-overdue to undo the narrow orthodoxy that has suffocated diversity and heterogeneity and social criticism within the discipline (sic) of economics. I am glad to spread … Continue reading
25 Graphics Showing Upward Redistribution of Income and Wealth in USA Since 1979
25 graphics showing upward redistribution of income and wealth in USA since 1979 February 25, 2011David F. RuccioLeave a commentGo to comments from David Ruccio I assemble a presentation on inequality on a regular basis for my Principles of Microeconomics course. … Continue reading
Are ‘We The People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age? By John W. Whitehead Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice … Continue reading
20 Graphs Showing Inequality in the USA
20 graphs showing inequality in the USA April 7, 2011 Below are 20 graphs from The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequalityshowing inequality, and in the main increasing inequality, in the United States. Clicking on any graph will take you … Continue reading
Modern Econometrics: A Mixture of Metaphysics and Bluff
Modern econometrics — a mixture of metaphysics and bluff November 16, 2014 from Lars Syll [Haavelmo’s] effort to create foundations for the probability approach in econometrics finally results in an inconsistent set of claims in its defence. First, there are vast amounts … Continue reading