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Steve Keen on Negative Interest Rates

In a recent interview here:[embedded content]Realist Left on Twitter @realistleft Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern LeftRealist Left on RedditRealist Left BlogRealist Left on YouTubeLord Keynes on FacebookLord Keynes on Twitter @Lord_Keynes2Alt Left on the Internet:Alternative Left on Facebook Alt-Left on...

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Apparently Sweden belongs to Everybody but the Swedes

A Swedish charity organisation called IM has treated the Swedes to this new TV advertisement:[embedded content]Amongst its jaw dropping statements:“There is no turning back. Sweden will never be what it was before. It is an understanding of what the world actually looks like – that Sweden is needed as a safe place for people who need refuge.”“Everyone needs to be integrated, established Swedes too.”And yet about 80% of the population of Sweden consists of native born Swedes. Now they are...

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The Alt Right and SJWs: Peas in a Pod

Amongst the Alt Right and SWJs we have eerie similarities: (1) selection of a chosen group, who are blamed for much of the evil in society;(2) the belief that the chosen group unjustly (secretly or openly) controls society and its institutions for its own benefit only and oppresses everybody else;(3) direction of the most extreme, irrational and pathological hatred for this group, sometimes with homicidal rhetoric, which both groups respectively defend as “edgy humour” (see here).The only...

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The Rise of Sexual Inactivity amongst Millennials

See here and here.This is referring to this study here (Twenge et al. 2016), which reports on Millennial (born from 1980–1994) and iGen (born from 1995–2012) sexual behaviour.This can be supplemented with Twenge et al. (2015).It is useful to note the various classifications of generations as follows:(1) Greatest Generation / G.I. Generation (born from 1900–1924);(2) Silent Generation / Lucky Few (born from 1925–1945);(3) Baby Boomers (born from 1946–1964);(4) Generation X (born from...

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European Elites Unhinged

Read this stunning article here. This is the opinion of Morgan Johansson, Sweden’s migration minister.He wants Europe to receive a *million migrants a year* for the foreseeable future, and a “permanent mechanism to distribute asylum seekers among EU countries.”That is a recipe not just for populist right victory all over Europe, but quite possibly a far right Europe in the not too distant future.That so few people can see this coming beggars belief.Realist Left...

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Monogamous Marriage is the Basis of Gender Equality

But we wouldn’t know this from the unhinged cultural left, which seems to be bent on attacking every social norm in society these days.First, some basic facts. It turns out that historical and anthropological research suggests that about 85% of human societies observed were polygamous, where men are legally or socially permitted to have more than one wife (Henrich, Boyd and Richerson 2012: 657). In the last century, however, there has been a powerful development towards monogamous marriage...

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The Realist Left and Alt Left on the Internet

A different kind of left is badly needed, because the mainstream neoliberal left and cultural left is rotten, unhinged, and – on many issues – worse than useless. Fortunately, I think the future is bright for the Alt Left (short for “Alternative Left”), and the views of what I would call the “Realist Left.”For the Alt Left and the Realist Left on the internet, we now have the following blogs, social media pages and other sites:Realist Left...

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An Alt Left YouTube Channel

One of the creators of the excellent Alternative Left Facebook page called “Agent Commie” has a YouTube channel here.This is his first video below, a thought-provoking and badly needed perspective on a new Alt Left politics:[embedded content]I like this principle very much:Alternative Left Politics, so far confined to the internet and social media, centred around advocacy of a program of protecting Western civilization from decline due to an erosion of humanist values created by regressive...

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Bibliography on Post Keynesian Economics

The bibliography below is assembled from my various posts, and provides a list of the most important books and articles on various topics within Post Keynesian economics.It is divided into the following sections:(1) Introductory Studies(2) Advanced Overviews and Specialised Studies(3) History of Post Keynesian Economics(4) Methodology(5) Uncertainty(6) Endogenous Money(7) Price Theory(8) Trade Theory(9) On the Work of George L. S. Shackle.This is a work in progress. I am not claiming it is...

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The Cult of Extreme Gender Equality

This can be deflated with one short question:Question: should 50% of all miners, sewage workers, and oil rig workers be women?After all, if all gender inequality is a horrendous evil and must be addressed, then aren’t feminists, logically, committed to making 50% of all miners, sewage workers, and oil rig workers be women?If the advocate of gender equality says “no,” then they have just admitted that some significant gender inequality is always going to exist, and that in certain professions...

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