Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual lynchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean.
Read more...Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual lynchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean.
Read more...How the media became the useful idiot of neoliberalism.
Read more...How economic research practices and the role of academic journals helped create and reinforced an orthodoxy that was able to miss that the crisis was coming.
Read more...Why “shareholders come first,” an ideology that became widely accepted only in the last 30 years, is a poor guide for managing companies.
Read more...A high-level discussion of the re-imaging of the word “capitalism”.
Read more...How two economists sought to reconcile Marx’s idea of common ownership with market mechanisms.
Read more...How do voter reactions to globalisation vary by skill level?
Read more...Recent documents disclose how private money, from the Koch Brothers, among others, curtailed academic freedom at George Mason University, its Antonin Scalia Law School, and its associated Mercatus Center.
Read more...Why a Universal Basic Income won’t produce the benefits its boosters claim it will.
Read more...Marx gets some long-overdue credit.
Read more...A short and devastating proof that QE was a bust in Japan.
Read more...Nudging and soft authoritarianism…
Read more...A critique of the monoculture in economics.
Read more...Taking on the biggest, bogus excuse for not adopting Medicare for All.
Read more...A deep dive into the origins of credit and money, along with the political implications of different theories.
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