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AB: Part 2 of a now three-part series. If you had to read anyone about the ACA and healthcare, Andrew Sprung is the person to read. His detail is impeccable. And that is why he is here, being featured at Angry Bear. Originally published at xpostfactoid, Andrew Sprung What were the effects of de facto repeal of the individual mandate and establishing a parallel market of medically underwritten health plans? This post is Part 2 of an...

AB: This a good coverage on healthcare in the US as compared to other countries. It is long. It also has many charts and graphs rather than words. This is why I posted this at Angry Bear. It is easy to grasp the implications. U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022, Commonwealth Fund, Munira Z. Gunja, Evan D. Gumas, Reginald D. Williams II Introduction In the previous edition of U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, we...

AB: This a good coverage on healthcare in the US as compared to other countries. It is long. It also has many charts and graphs rather than words. This is why I posted this at Angry Bear. It is easy to grasp the implications. U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022, Commonwealth Fund, Munira Z. Gunja, Evan D. Gumas, Reginald D. Williams II Introduction In the previous edition of U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, we...

This is part 2 of my response to George Selgin’s post here:George Selgin, “‘Lord Keynes’ contra White on the Beginnings of Coinage,” Alt-M Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future, August 30, 2017.Selgin refers to various new data from the past 20 years or so, and much of the new evidence was presented at a conference called “White Gold: Revealing the World’s Earliest Coins,” held from 25–26th June, 2012 (International Congress at Israel Museum, Jerusalem).Wartenberg (2017), for instance,...

In part 1 here, the debate within the Socialist Party of America on mass immigration at their national convention in Chicago from 15–21 May 1910 was examined.In 1912, the Socialist Party of America held another national convention from 12–18 May in Indianapolis.Once again, the issue of mass immigration was discussed, and once again the committee on the immigration question produced a majority report.Remarkably, the majority report of 1912 was even more opposed to mass immigration than that...

Chapter 15 of volume 1 of Capital is called “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry” and examines the role of machines in developed capitalist production in the 19th century.Part 1 of this review is here. This is Part 2.Marx divides the chapter into ten sections: (1) The Development of Machinery(2) The Value transferred by the Machinery to the Product(3) The Most Immediate Effects of Machine Production on the Worker(4) The Factory(5) The Struggle between Worker and Machine(6) The Compensation...

Chapter 1 of volume 1 of Capital is called “The Commodity,” and presents Marx’s theory of the commodity and labour value.Chapter 1 is divided into four sections: (1) The Two Factors of the Commodity: Use Value and Value(2) Dual Character of the Labour embodied in Commodities(3) The Value-Form, or Exchange-Value(4) The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret. A summary of the first two sections is here. Below is a critical summary of the last two sections.(3) The Value-Form, or...