Ilargi: Ungovernability
“Ungovernability: or why the legitimacy crisis will only get worse.
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Hoisted From Comments: Decoding the Misleading Metaphors of Money and Banking
How the choice of metaphors to describe money, finance, and banking is a part of the battle for ideas too often overlooked.
Read more...Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race
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Read more...Understanding Moral Repugnance: The Case of the US Market for Kidney Transplantation
How economists think about repugnance is revealing, and not necessarily in a good way.
Read more...The Mainstream Media’s Phony War
How the mainstream media is still waging a Phony War for the elites — and why you need to donate to the Naked Capitalism fundraiser.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: A Pocket Handbook of Soft Climate Denial
More on soft climate denial: acknowledging that climate change is a serious threat but being unwilling to take sufficient steps to combat it.
Read more...Latest Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 2
How reformers and labor leaders were co-opted by capitalists waving the Third Way banner.
Read more...Are Our Earnings Really Our ‘Just Deserts’?
Why the idea that wages represent “just deserts,” as in the individual’s contribution to social output, is bunk.
Read more...The Quiet Desperation of Millennials
A new survey on the outlook of Millennials finds they are not happy campers, and for good reason.
Read more...Democracy. Capitalism. Socialism. Choose Any Three of the Above
Why capitalism, socialism, and democracy are necessary for any country’s prosperity, economic freedom, and economic well-being.
Read more...Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on the Global Movement for Black Lives
Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, weighs in on issues related to race and racism in America today.
Read more...Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf Tries to Brazen Out Fraud as Congressmen Call Wells a “Criminal Enterprise,” Demand Breakup
Stumpf has another deservedly bad day in the Congressional hot seat.
Read more...The Nobel Prize in Economics: How It Took a Hard Neoliberal Turn
How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
Read more...“There Ought to be a Law….” Why Prison is the American Way
How overreaching and poorly conceived laws produce difficult-to-justify prison sentences.
Read more...Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck
People don’t mind inequality due to “brute luck”…but is one man’s brute luck another man’s rigged system?
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