Tony Benn’s Ten Minute History of Neoliberalism
A must-watch speech by the great British socialist Tony Benn.
Read more...Category Archives: Social policy
Imperial Overreach: U.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations
The US has special ops missions in 70% of the countries in the world,, more than at the height of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read more...Don Quijones: Uruguay Does Unthinkable, Rejects TISA and Global Corporatocracy
Uruguay is the only country that has had any kind of public discussion about TiSA and its potentially game-changing implications.
Read more...The History of Witchhunts and Their Relevance to the Present Day
Primitive accumulation, the peasant wars, and witchhunts as a means of social control.
Read more...The Star Trek Fallacy: Romanticizing Imperialism
Was Star Trek wrong in promoting the notion that peaceful exploration is possible?
Read more...More Proof That Economic Policies Have Failed Workers: Median Real Incomes Stagnant for Last Two Decades
Sometimes one chart really does tell you what you need to know.
Read more...CalSTRS, Maryland Fund Private Equity Players Seeking Profits in the Refugee Crisis
Private-equity-backed providers undercut charities in providing refugee services. It’s not hard to imagine how the results are coming in.
Read more...Chris Hedges and Leo Panitch: We are All Greeks Now
Leo Panitch and Chris Hedges discuss how nature of imperialism today is financial power.
Read more...Germany’s Handling of Immigration Will Shape the Future of Europe
Immigration could turn around Germany’s main weakness – its precarious demographic situation.
Read more...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.
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