Germany’s Handling of Immigration Will Shape the Future of Europe
Immigration could turn around Germany’s main weakness – its precarious demographic situation.
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Campaign 2016 and the 420: Marijuana Policy and the Coming of Big Weed
Is there a coming tipping point for marijuana legalization? What are the implications for public policy? And what do the 2016 candidates think?
Read more...Spillovers of Pro-Social Motivation: Evidence From a Randomised Intervention Study on Blood Donors
Evidence suggests that people are more likely to behave in a pro-social way if they are aware of others who behave in such a manner. This column finds evidence for this phenomenon among blood donors. For every unit increase in a donor’s motivation, there is a 44% spillover in motivation to their fellow tenant. There is an overall increase in donation rates due to such a social multiplier of 17.9 percentage points, instead of the 10 percentage points obtained by calling an isolated donor.
Read more...Crane Brinton on Revolution
Some extracts from Crane Brinton’s Anatomy of Revolution, considered.
Read more...Medicaid Privatization in Iowa and the Market State
A billion-dollar Medicaid contract is being awarded in Iowa through a corrupt process.
Read more...Household Labor, Caring Labor, Unpaid Labor
A discussion of the practical and policy implications of failing to measure household labor and production.
Read more...Robert Reich: In the New Economy, Workers Take on All the Risk
More Americans than ever don’t know what they’ll be earning next week. That’s why we need income insurance.
Read more...As QE Wanes, Real Costs of “Employment” Subsidies Surface
As the QE prop is removed, it will become more difficult to ignore the fact that “employment” subsidies were often simply “employer” subsidies.
Read more...VICE News: “Why Pay Your Taxes?”
This Vice News segment makes the normally dry and daunting subject of taxes (really tax policy) accessible and entertaining. Plus it features Lee Sheppard.
Read more...Why Bernie Sanders Should Add a Job Guarantee to His Policy Agenda
Bernie has unapologetically rejected sclerotic visions of what is ‘politically possible’. And now he should add the Job Guarantee to his list of issues.
Read more...The GM Labeling Law to End All Labeling Laws
Campaigners for the Orwellianly-named “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015” falsely demonize those who want GM labeling as anti-science.
Read more...Is the Local Economy the Solution to a Post-Capitalist World?
Relocalization has the potential to increase political accountability and revitalize communities. But how do you make it happen?
Read more...Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon on #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Misleadership Class
Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report discuss how BlackLivesMatter seems to be abandoning its campaign against police brutality to become a tool of the black misleadership class.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go? War, Vietnam and Today
How shocking images of the Vietnam war helped stoke the antiwar movement of the 1960s, and how we’ve since become inured to them and the horrors of war generally.
Read more...No, Inflation Doesn’t Erode the Burden of Debts
Inflation doesn’t reduce the burden of debt, rather it may (or may not) accompany a rise in nominal worker income.
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