Matthew Desmond
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On free-market capitalism, political spending, and Jane Mayer’s ‘Dark Money.’
Everybody knew that politicians could be bought… well, academics can be, too.
campaign finance, climate change, Dark Money, David Koch, economic policy, environmental regulations, Evicted, fiscal policy, free markets, global warming, government intervention, Jane Mayer, Koch brothers, libertarianism, Matthew Desmond, negative externalities, political spending, progressive taxation, Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism, subsidies for the rich, tax, tragedy of the commons
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On Lisa Randall’s ‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs.’
I love cool stories as much as anyone, but not under the auspices of science for a general audience.
astronomy, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theory, dark matter, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, electromagnetism, Evicted, Gabriel Zucman, gold foil experiment, gravity, Lisa Randall, Matthew Desmond, Occam’s Razor, popular science, Rutherford, The Hidden Wealth of Nations, weakly interacting massive particles
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On Edin & Shaefer’s ‘$2.00 a Day.’
You can’t learn what it takes to survive poverty when you think about people as numbers.
$2.00 a Day, budget, ethnography, Evicted, extreme poverty, food deserts, food insecurity, food stamps, H. Luke Shaefer, Hand to Mouth, high cost of rent in the United States, Kathyrn Edin, Linda Tirado, Living on Almost Nothing in America, Matthew Desmond, Paul Theroux, people want jobs, poverty, PTSD, sexual assault, SNAP, The Hypocrisy of Helping the Poor
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