Economix just got its first review! A good one! From Bob Greenberger!
This is a good day.
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Economix just got its first review! A good one! From Bob Greenberger! This is a good day. We’re constantly hearing about how rich people are wealth creators, job creators, the most productive members of our society, a bunch of Hank Reardons, bla bla bla ad infinitum, and how we should cut their taxes so that they can unleash their productive powers. The more intelligent-sounding purveyors of this point of view use sophisticated […] Gawker.com asked unemployed people to tell their own stories, and the responses have been flooding in. They’re harrowing, but they’re worth reading. Or rather, what makes them harrowing is what makes them worth reading; these are intelligent, articulate people (the all caps rants presumably don’t get published) who, often, didn’t make any particularly bad decisions […] Bill McKibben’s new Rolling Stone article: Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, is clear and chilling. The article goes into depth, but the math is simple: According to our most conservative (i.e., hopeful) estimates, it’s possible that we could survive a warming of 2 degrees Celsius without catastrophe. (This is arguable—this summer, with its droughts and […] Thus, the cities of the future, rather than being made out of glass and steel as envisioned by earlier generations of urbanists, are instead largely constructed out of crude brick, straw, recycled plastic, cement blocks, and scrap wood. Instead of cities of light soaring toward heaven, much of the twenty-first-century urban world squats in squalor, […] It’ll be no surprise to my regular readers that I’m a bit skeptical when people praise “the market” (by which is usually meant “powerful companies that do not operate in anything resembling a real free market”), but there is a case when leaving things to private business is clearly better than leaving it to government: […] From yesterday’s New York Times: “[I]f your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary. I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.” […] The book exists! I have an actual, physical copy in my hands! You can pre-order it on Amazon! That is all. Came across this quote, from Rexford Tugwell: “If we lack purchasing power, we lack everything…. There is just one thing to do: Take incomes from where they are and place them where we need them.” Tugwell was one of FDR’s “brain trust”; he was speaking of the depression of the 1930s, but he could have […] Our quote of the day comes from Alexis de Tocqueville: “We so soon become used to the thought of want . . . that an evil which grows greater to the sufferer the longer it lasts becomes less to the observer by the very fact of its duration.” Quoted in Henry George, Progress and Poverty. […] |
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