Daryl Hall & John Oates Mobile Fidelity DSD 64 to Analog
Read More »MOFI #shorts Keb’Mo’
Mobile Fidelity DSD 64 to Analog Keb' Mo' self-titled
Read More »Why debate markets vs. government when we let the right rig the market?
from Dean Baker I was happy to see this segment of Ezra Klein’s show (hosted by Rogé Karma) which featured an interview with Columbia University Law Professor Katharina Pistor. Pistor is the author of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. I’ve not yet read the book, but got the gist from the interview. Pistor is arguing that we have structured the market in ways that generate enormous inequality. In the interview, she presents several ways in which the law has...
Read More »Episode 761: Economist Dean Baker & Bill B in DC
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. Bill Boyle is a well sourced and connected businessman who lives in Washington DC with his wife and son. Bill is a trusted friend and source for me who I met after he listened and became a regular and highly respected caller of my...
Read More »Victoria Chick (1936-2023) – RWER 2018 paper “Industrial policy, then and now”
Abstract After 40 years of neoliberalism, even governments believe that they are inefficient when compared to the private sector. And economics, in its swing to the right, reinforces this view. The philosophy behind public expenditure for social purposes and the criteria for judging such projects has not been a subject for public debate until recently. In particular, industrial policy was very simple: leave it to the private sector to allocate resources as the market prompts. In...
Read More »MOFI #shorts CSN One-Step
Mobile Fidelity One-Step 45 RPM double LP, released Dec 2022 Crosby, Stills and Nash "The Couch" album
Read More »Share of new wealth gained by richest 1% between 2020-21
Source: Oxfam calculation based on Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report.
Read More »Inflation in an unequal world economy: How the Fed’s policies are doubly perverse for the Global South
from C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh Tight monetary policies in rich countries obviously affect people in the countries where they are applied, but they also cause ripple effects across the world. We were already in a very unequal world before the most recent global price increases. Most developing countries were not able neutralize the damage inflicted by the pandemic, largely because they had much weaker fiscal stimuli. Of nearly $14 trillion in additional fiscal spending by...
Read More »Economic modeling — a constructive critique
from Lars Syll If we have independent reasons to believe that the phenomena under investigation are mechanical in Mill’s sense, well and good: mathematical modeling will prove an apt mode of representation … But if we have independent reasons to believe that there is more going on in the phenomena under investigation than a mathematical model can suggest – that is, that the phenomena in question are not in fact mechanical in the required sense – then mathematical modeling will prove...
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