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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 a global wealth tax, automation, and human trafficking.
If you wanted a super-brief summary of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century (which I’ve discussed in a previous essay, here), it’d probably be: “Piketty presents extensive historical data to demonstrate why we ought to have a global wealth tax, followed by a brief, snappy, depressing summary of why we won’t have one anytime…
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On deficit spending.
I generally like Paul Krugman’s opinion pieces. I think he does a good job of explaining economic concepts in terms that the average reader can understand, and I like that his biases — because economics is a sufficiently squishy subject that your preexisting biases could lead you to diametrically opposite conclusions even when analyzing the…
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