Archive for 2007
Econ-Utopia: The Bloodless Revolution, part 1 of 2: A review of Peter Barnes' CAPITALISM 3.0
Econ-Utopia: The Bloodless Revolution, part 1 of 2: A review of Peter Barnes’ CAPITALISM 3.0by Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, CPE Staff Economist An Econ-Utopia, brought to you by the Center for Popular Economics. A few weeks ago, CPE Staff Economist Jerry Friedman wrote an Econ-Atrocity reviewing Bill McKibben’s new book, Deep Economy. Though he says McKibben “has ...Read more.
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#4)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. Note: I am currently experiencing some job dislocation, and, being right smack in the middle of the resume-writing, job-searching roller coaster ride, am unable to compose these entries as regularly as I would like. I’m posting an unpublished piece I did last October, which ...Read more.
Challenging Coke's thirst for water: The Apizaco story
By Marie Kennedy and Chris TillyJune 28th, 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 tortillas in Mexico. Photo captions: (1) Javier, a ...Read more.
The Battle of the Horns of Hattin
July 4, 1187. Two knights stood on the ridge watching the rising sun glint off Lake Tiberias. They were hopelessly trapped, the treacherous old rogue, Raynald de Chatillon and his foolish young protégé, Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. Below, between them and the water, lay the fortress of Tiberias and the army of Saladin. ...Read more.
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#3)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. In the last few weeks an interesting debate has been going on, primarily in the blogosphere, about the relationship between so—called heterodox and orthodox economics. The debate was set off by an article posted by The Nation in which Chistopher Hayes surveyed the history ...Read more.
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#2)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. About a week and a half ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a cover story (it was subscriber-access only at the time, but you can get the whole story here) which reviewed recent research suggesting that greater economic openness in general, and outsourcing in ...Read more.
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.
