Interview: Are We Misinformed About Misinformation?
The influence of iffy and inflammatory online content so often depicted as misinformation is overblown, says researcher David Rothschild.
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Another Nobel for Anglocentric Neoliberal Institutional Economics
New institutional economics won another “Nobel prize”, claiming that good institutions and governance ensure growth, equity & democracy.
Read more...‘Hate and Lust for Vengeance Are Passed Like Poison from One Generation to the Next’
Vengeance is coming home.
Read more...The Economics of Medicine: Personal Reflections
More examples of how medicine, at least as practiced in the US, is going off the rails.
Read more...Heterodox Approaches Will Provide Answers to the Multiple Cascading Crises of Our Future
The old normal is rigid and destructive to humans and the planet. Heterodox ideas offer some hope, but will they be sufficient?
Read more...Big and Small Businesses Are Nothing Like Each Other
An important yet oft-ignored point: big and small businesses are wildly different, and that matters from a policy perspective.
Read more...The Dark Side of AI-Powered Synthetic Biology
Another warning about the dangers of AI-supercharged synthetic biology.
Read more...How Corporate Vehicles Conceal Crime and Chicanery
Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability
Read more...Satyajit Das: Interrogating Russian History
Satyajit Das discusses three new books on Russian history that profess to offer new insights, with predictably mixed results.
Read more...Thomas Neuburger: Carbon Sinks Are Failing
On carbon sinks becoming inoperative: ‘Nature has so far balanced our abuse. This is coming to an end’
Read more...“Powder Keg in the Pacific, How China’s Challenge Revived America’s Position in Asia and the Pacific”
A reader critical thinking exercise in the form of a neocon justification of US efforts to contain China.
Read more...Europe’s Blue Hydrogen Plans Risk Generating Annual Emissions on Par With Denmark
An important takedown of the blue hydrogen scam, a pet initiative of fossil fuel companies.
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What If There’s No Landing at All, But Flight at Higher Speed and Altitude than Normal, with Higher and Rising Inflation?
Recent economic data suggest inflation may gain steam again. What would the Fed do?
Read more...“Is The West Prepared to Deal With Potential Iranian Sabotage of the Oil Market?”
A discussion of some of the ways Iran could use economic, as in oil, leverage to retaliate against an Israel strike.
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