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Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Dirk Ehnts — The Atlantic on Adam Smith and inequality miss major quote

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The Atlantic has an article named The Problem With Inequality, According to Adam Smith. One paragraph reads: Yet there remains a broad co...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Sheldon Richman — Madison on Government and Force

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Thus Madison would have understood that libertarian minarchism without taxation is incoherent. While it is unclear what Washington may hav...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Mariana Mazzucato — STATE VS. MARKETS: A MISLEADING DICHOTOMY

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The debate about the relative roles of the state and the market in capitalist economies tends to swing from side to side in the hearts and ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Mark Thoma — The Problem with Completely Free Markets

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Some weekend reading. Econ 101 — because some people need constant reminding of the difference between so-called free markets and genui...
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

How Do You Get People To Explore Their Options? Give 'em Enough Income To Keep Doing So.

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Speaking of trust, an erstwhile cartoonist examines the ... Trans-Pacific Partnership an...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The Arthurian — "No government in history has been known to evade this pattern."

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"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade thi...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

The Century of the Self (and it's unending attack on the aggregate)

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) The Century of the Self Nice to find this again. It disappeared from YouTube, when the BBC ...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

John Aziz — Why are Democrats souring on big government?

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According to a new Gallup poll , 72 percent of Americans say that big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than big bus...
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Monday, September 9, 2013

Who needs the banks? It's Gov't that does most of the lending now.

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A few days ago JP Morgan announced that it was going to stop making student loans. Great, who needs them? Since the crisis the banks hav...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Ross Eisenbrey — Government–Not Business–Has Been the Source of Breakthrough Innovation

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Mariana Mazzucato, a professor of economics at the University of Sussex, has been making the point very effectively in lectures and a new b...
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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Brad DeLong — Economic Policy: Saturday Twentieth Century Economic History Weblogging

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Interesting assessment of economic history leading to present-day challenges, which Brad argues, require government involvement in society ...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Our entire government, and press, is acting as though 1933 never happened.

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commentary by Roger Erickson Van Hollen Calls Simpson-Bowles a Framework for Debt Deal Representative Chris Van Hollen, the House Budget Co...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Mary Hobart, 1891, Presages Parts of Modern Monetary Operations

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commentary by Roger Erickson A Scientific Exposure of the Errors in Our Monetary System - 1891. "Our government exacts taxation, ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Kemal Dervis — Caijing: What Role for the State?

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In today's interdependent world, the debate about the role of public policy, the size and functions of government, and the legitimacy o...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Kemal Derviş — What Role for the State?

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In today’s interdependent world, the debate about the role of public policy, the size and functions of government, and the legitimacy of pu...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government

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Such calamities, devastating for those affected, have important implications for how we think about the role of government in our future. D...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Time to re-read the Declaration of Independence and recall its noble ideals

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Time to revisit the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...
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