Wait: Maybe Europeans are as Rich as Americans
Many Europeans argue that when you adjust nominally higher American incomes for how much we spend from our own pockets on healthcare plus the longer hours we work, we aren’t better off.
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Supervising Culture and Behavior at Financial Institutions
Financial regulators increasingly acknowledge organizational culture as a source of systemic risk, yet they have been loath to do more than influence compensation structures, since they do not want to be perceived to be interfering with management. This post describes a new approach in the Netherlands that
Read more...The Future of Work and the Role of Climate Change
Consideration of climate change has been almost totally missing from discussions about the future of work. What happens when you include it?
Read more...Mussolini-Style Corporatism, aka Fascism, on the Rise in the US
While the new neoliberal economic order is not a replay of fascism,, there is a remarkable amount of inhibition in calling out the similarities where they exist.
Read more...“Stunning” Rise in Death Rate, Pain Levels for Middle-Aged, Less Educated Whites
An HIV-level silent epidemic has hit less-educated, middle aged whites, with death rates rising, contrary to patterns in the rest of the world and in other US populations.
Read more...Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Lambert here: I’d be interested to see what readers think of this study. My question would be how representative the ethnicities selected are of ethnicity as such, and whether the effects identified here have persisted over time, historically.
Read more...VSPs Get Their Way With Budget Deal: Social Security Benefits Are Cut
Yes, there were cuts in the Social Security “Little Bargain” just concluded.
Read more...Hillary Clinton Indicates She is Open to Raising the Retirement Age
Hillary Clinton again reveals her inner neoliberal in suggesting that raising the retirement age might not be a bad idea.
Read more...“All Knew That This Interest Was Somehow The Cause of the War”
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
Read more...Why Are Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools Suspending Students Left and Right?
It’s easy to be a “Success Academy” if you have rules that allow you to force out students that you think will be harder to teach.
Read more...Rajiv Sethi: Race and Police Bias – Threats Perceived When There Are None
Sethi takes issue with a New York Times article that took the astonishing view that combatting bias would have little impact on the rate of police killings of blacks.
Read more...Failure of Globalization and the Fourth Estate
“Free Trade,” the banner of Globalization, has not only wrecked the world’s economy, it has left Western Democracy in shambles.
Read more...Joe Firestone: Fiscal Myths of Campaign 2016
Most of the world, and most notably the United States, is in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. It’s time to debunk them.
Read more...Attacks on Sanders, Progressives Falsely Depict Obama As Lefty Failure as Opposed to Neoliberal Success
A sign that the progressive cause is moving out of the wilderness and starting to rattle The Powers That Be is that the messaging apparatus is starting to attempt to demonize Sanders as a hopeless cause. And the arguments made against him and the progressive cause generally are made via bizarre analogies to the neoliberal Obama.
Read more...Hillary Clinton on Social Security Expansion: Words are Wind. A Cold Wind.
Spoiler: Hillary Clinton does not support Social Security expansion. And that’s not the worst of it.
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