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Friday, June 21, 12:10 PM: A day that will live forever. For it is the day that I, Mike Goodwin, will be speaking at Port Washington Public Library. Come by! I’m working on my talk now–it should be good. Info is here: http://www.pwpl.org/blog/2013/05/11/sandwiched-in-101/ Bruce Bartlett, in the awesomely named but unrelated Economix blog over at the Times, has a piece that makes a point that I’ve been thinking for years: Finance is a drag on the economy. This goes against all sorts of economic orthodoxy; in this view, if we’re paying banks, stockbrokers, and real estate agents more […] Francophones rejoice! The French version of Economix is out! It has a cool new cover; gaze on it here. Economix is now available in Spanish, from Lunwerg Editores. No habla Español, but Google Translate tells me that these people (heavy hitters all) say good things: Una obra monumental que te permite, de un vistazo, entrar de lleno en lo importante de la historia de la economía. Para los que no somos economistas es un […] I had a great discussion with Marcy Rosenbaum of the Livelihood Show back at the Miami Book Fair; it’s online here. Marcy seeks out people who’ve taken interesting directions in their lives; I guess “move to India to write some impossible book” qualified. Check it out! I could have titled this “Stocks hit new high.” But “Stocks prepare for new crash” is more to the point. Yes, the recent jump in stock prices was based on some good economic news. But “good,” these days, is relative. We’re more than four years into a freaking depression. Maybe, just maybe, some cautious optimism […] I can’t believe I’ve let this news sit for a month (my only excuse is that my day job is brutal). Anyway, this deserves trumpets and drum rolls: On the Ropes, illustrated by Economix’s own Dan E. Burr, is out! Here’s an interview with the author, James Vance. Key line: “Dan is a collaborator’s dream.” […] Steve Keen, author of the excellent Debunking Economics, which I used as a source, has a project on Kickstarter that’s worth a look. The video and text on the Kickstarter site explains the project pretty well–basically, Keen says that he has a better economic model than the ones that economists use today, a model that […] Matthew Feeney at Reason magazine gave Economix a nice review, calling it “a surprisingly entertaining use of the graphic novel format for education in a sometimes tricky but always important field.” This is especially gratifying because the folks at Reason (a libertarian bunch) tend to skew conservative, and Economix is pretty unabashedly liberal, so we […] I’ve fallen behind in my updating, but Economix has gotten more good reviews: 1) The awesome and talented Colleen Mondor at Bookslut (yes there’s a site called Bookslut and it’s quite good) says: Honestly, I can’t believe how captivating a book has been crafted about what most of us would agree is one of the […] |
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