Archive for May, 2007
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#1)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. Please note: this is a continuation of a series that began in March under the title “This Just In: Dollars & Sense Reads the News“; besides the terrific new name, taken from Chapter 28 of Volume One of Marx’s Capital), I’m hoping to make ...Read more.
How Doctors Think, By Jerome Groopman M.D.
Two years ago, an urgent call from my father: My mother, then 84, was ill. Gray skin, sunken eyes, confused. At the hospital, her blood tests showed abnormally high levels of calcium. She had calcium poisoning. Calcium poisoning? Six weeks prior, it turned out, the family doctor had instructed her to start taking calcium tablets ...Read more.
This just in…D&S reads the news (#10)
The tenth in a series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. What is it with economics-based periodicals? The Economist insists on calling itself a newspaper, while it shed any passing similarity with that format—one, I might add, that Karl Marx was intimately familiar with in the mid-nineteenth century—generations ago. More recently, Challenge, ...Read more.
Up against the charros and the changarros
Mexico’s independent unions confront a wave of lousy jobs Chris Tilly and Marie KennedyMay 9, 2007 This is the fourth in a series of posts by D&S comrades Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly, who are spending six months in Tlaxcala in central Mexico. Their first posting was about the recent increases in the price of ...Read more.
This just in…D&S reads the news (#9)
The ninth in a series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. Last Wednesday, at Harvard, former Federal Reserve governor and current Princeton economics professor Alan Blinder engaged Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University in a debate on the costs and benefits of the phenomenon known as offshoring (the tendency of companies legally domiciled ...Read more.
This just in…D&S reads the news (#8)
The eighth in a series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. First of all, I’d like to wish everyone a happy May Day. Keep struggling out there, comrades! Speaking of May Day, the most recently released economic indicators are starting to bring to mind—despite the astronomical differences in living standards, efficiency and ...Read more.
