Michael Hudson on Meet the Renegades
Michael Hudson gives a freewheeling interview on some favorite topics like rentier capitalism and why the Great Moderation wasn’t so great.
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Whom to Trust: Why We Persistently Get It Wrong
Placing trust in the wrong person can be costly, yet most rely on their beliefs about cheating rather other means of protecting themselves.
Read more...Liberalism Present: Disney’s Utopia
A ghost watches the movie Zootopia and talks with its star about what it can teach us about modern progressivism.
Read more...Liberalism Past: The Rise of Moral Clarity
A ghost looks at how 9/11, the Right, and the Internet influenced the course of modern progressivism.
Read more...Liberalism Past: the Secret Murder of Postmodernism
A ghost explores the beliefs of 90s postmodernists, and isn’t convinced they were on the right track.
Read more...Liberalism Past: Not Being an Idiot
A ghost travels back in time and listens to a talk by a popular liberal speaker.
Read more...The Spirit of Liberalism: What is Liberalism? What is the Left?
A ghost ponders what it means to be a liberal.
Read more...Baby Bonds: A Plan for Black/White Wealth Equality Conservatives Could Love?
Is the Baby Bonds plan to give newborns an account proportionate to their degree of disadvantage inspired or just a misguided gimmick?
Read more...Rise of the Politics of Rage
Is rage the undercurrent of increasingly anti-globalist politics?
Read more...Ilargi: Ungovernability
“Ungovernability: or why the legitimacy crisis will only get worse.
Read more...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.
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