Category Archives: The dismal science

Coffee Break: Advances in Limb Regeneration & Malaria, Plus Science & Politics and a World through the Lens of Tuberculosis

Part the First. Old Experimental Models in Biology Lead to New Knowledge.  Developmental Biology began as Embryology.  A few of us still kicking remember the transition and miss the holistic approach required to master the material.  Early embryological models included sea urchins and salamanders, tadpoles and the chicken.  Much useful research was done with these […]

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Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer

The likely outcome of Trump policies are a recession, a rise in inequality, and a further fall in living standards of working and middle-class Americans

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Complacency, Denialism and the Risk of an Economic Trumpocalypse

Why the downside to Trump economic policies are far greater than the press and pundit class are willing to acknowledge.

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Michael Hudson and Yanis Varoufakis with Ann Pettifor on Economic and Political Paradigm Changes

The formidable trio of Michael Hudson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ann Pettifor assess the rapid changes in our economic system.

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