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Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Exposing the disinformation industry — Paul Robinson

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What we knew already. The perps accuse others of doing what they themselves are doing or have done. The power game. When I was a y...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Debt And Power – Martin North Interviews Michael Hudson

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In this post we discuss debt in the current context, and consider where the very high levels of debt will take us. And as importantly, who ...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power — Jonathan Cook

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I had a mentor who emphasized the necessity to understand power. At first I didn't quite know what he was talking about. Subsequently, I...
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Wealth has always been about power — Blair Fix

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What has confused economists for centuries is that they’ve focused on what’s inside the fence of property rights, not the fence itself. And...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism — Andy Beckett

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After decades of rightwing dominance, a transatlantic movement of leftwing economists is building a practical alternative to neoliberalism....
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake — Yves Smith

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Must -read. This places economic power front and center and shows how without addressing social, political, and economic the result of capt...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

How to Tax the Super Rich — Emmanuel Saez

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Does the solution to widening economic inequality lie in a wealth tax? We speak to Emmanuel Saez, an adviser to Elizabeth Warren who helped...
Friday, July 5, 2019

Jason Hickel — Inequality metrics and the question of power

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How should we measure inequality? There are two metrics that economists use: relative and absolute. In the past I have argued that the re...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Peter Radford — Notes on: Power Matters

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Peter Radford doesn't mention it specifically, but market power enables rent extraction. Otherwise, a good read. The Radford Free Pres...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Jesse — Audacious Oligarchy: The Rules Are For the Little People

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I cannot stress enough that this elitist attitude towards society is a learned mindset, that comes with a sense of extreme entitlement, and...
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Friday, March 29, 2019

Mike O’Donnell — Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today

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Oldie but goodie. Excellent short summary of the contributions of C. Wright Mills.  "Follow the power." Power should be c...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Duncan Green — Please help me answer some scary smart student questions on Power and Systems

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Uncertainty and emergence in huge complex adaptive systems. To what extent can reflexivity anticipate emergence anticipated and reduce ...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Branko Milanovic — Marx for me (and hopefully for others too)

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Branko Milanovic explains why Marx's historical analysis of socio-economic phenomena remains not only relevant but also preeminent, bas...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Jonathan Cook — Long Read: The neoliberal order is dying. Time to wake up

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Analysis from the left mostly about British politics but inclusive of all aspects of neoliberalism as the policy, strategy and tactics of ...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

University of Colorado — How ideas go viral in academia: Where idea starts is key

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How ideas move through academia may depend on where those ideas come from as much as their quality, a new study suggests. Science Daily Ho...
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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Laurie Macfarlane — Why Wealth Is Determined More by Power Than Productivity

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To the early classical economists, this kind of wealth – attained by simply extracting value created by others ­­– was deemed to be unearne...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Volatility — Look Only at What The System Does (Pesticides and Bees)

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You want to understand reality? You want to know the truth? Never listen to what anyone who represents power says about what power wants to...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

David F. Ruccio — Utopia and the economics of control

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Good article about economics, power and ethics, with which I would substantially agree as a philosopher.  However, Professor Ruccio p...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Chris Dillow — On Capitalist Hegemony

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Asymmetrical power. State capture by elites arises from asymmetrical power in societies rather than asymmetrical power being created by...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Thomas Piketty — Re-thinking the capital code

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All these studies have one thing in common: they demonstrate that reflection on power relationships and property, which for a moment was th...