How to Construct a New Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Peter Barnes
Higher-level selection is the invisible hand.
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Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Why it might make sense to pay heed on what the Mafia hath wrought….
Read more...Notes on the West Virginia Teachers Strike of 2018
How this strike began, the current state of play, health care as a demand, solidarity, and the role of the Democrats
Read more...Commentary on Study Finding Gun Injuries Fall 20% During NRA Conventions Curiously Omits Some Possible Explanations
Arguments have already started over the implications of a new study that finds that gun injuries fall sharply when the NRA convention is on.
Read more...Priceless Moments: How Capitalism Eats Our Time
Market economy to you: “All your time are belong to us”
Read more...It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
How cultural developments, like shallow personal connections and authoritarian workplaces, feed the rise in depression.
Read more...Beat the Right Wing Framing: How to Make the Case for a Better, Fairer Economy
The right has been winning the PR wars on economic issues. A major UK research project has some ideas for how to turn that around.
Read more...The Dystopian Technologies Being Used to Control Workers
Big companies are surveilling workers more intensively than ever and using that to create high tech sweatshops.
Read more...Don’t Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy
Why having explored the humanities is a career plus.
Read more...How Falling Down Can Lead to Waking Up: Learning from Loss and Pain
Falling is often a life-changer; observations from someone who is adjusting.
Read more...Six Things Urban Feminists (Make That Anyone) Should Never Say to Rural People
How urban people routinely sneer at their country cousins.
Read more...Why Is the American Left So Prejudiced About the South?
Yves here. Having spent time in the South, in general, Northerners carry huge class prejudice against Southerns. The same way a British accent is worth 20 attributed IQ points, a Southern accent is an attributed reduction of about 10 points. The Southerns I know who are not treated that way are people who managed to […]
Read more...There’s a Much Smarter Way for Cities to Plan Their Futures
Why the “smart cities” movement needs to adopt better goals and metrics.
Read more...The Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter
The idea that people are attached to the places where they live has been ignored by economists and politicians, to their peril.
Read more...If You Want to Expand Our Welfare System, Call It ‘Assistance to the Poor’
“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
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