Posts Tagged ‘Alejandro Reuss’
“I’m Getting Arrested!” Droid App; etc.
(1) “Help–I’m Getting Arrested!” Droid App: Hat-tip to Julio Huato on lbo-talk: at CNET Jaymar Cabebe reviews a new Droid app that could be useful for #Occupy activists: Imagine you’re in New York (or perhaps another major metropolitan city) peacefully protesting. Your cause? Let’s say, to curb excessive influence of big business and the wealthiest ...Read more.
Alejandro Reuss and Juliet Schor on Friday
(1) More Teach-Ins on Friday!: Alejandro Reuss of the UMass-Amherst Labor Center and a Dollars & Sense Associate and Juliet Schor of the BU Sociology Department and author of The Overworked American and Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth will lead teach-ins this Friday at #OccupyBoston, as part of the Economics Forum we at ...Read more.
#OB Crackdown; More Teach-Ins; etc.
(1) Teach-Ins Continue at #OccupyBoston: UMass-Boston economist Arjun Jayadev did a great teach-in yesterday at #OccupyBoston. His focus was on arguments for austerity that go under the oxymoronic name “expansionary contraction” (all the arguments are faulty, it turns out). There was a nice and steady audience of about 30 people, and they seemed hungry for ...Read more.
Rank-and-File Economics | 9/11 | Ponzi | Floods
(1) Rank-and-File Economics: I have just posted the cover story from our Sept/Oct 2011 Annual Labor Issue, Rank-and-File Economics: Fighting for a Wage- and Job-Led Recovery, by Katherine Sciacchitano. This is a great article–I hope it gets wide circulation. (I’m working on that now–submitting it to the news aggregators; you can help by linking to ...Read more.
Regulatory Review; EconoFAQs on QE2
(1) Bill Black on Obama’s Regulatory Review: I had to chuckle at the Times’ headline about Obama’s regulatory review a couple of days ago: Obama Asks for Review of Rules Stifling Jobs. As I mentioned in my last post, the new post-Tucson civility has rendered the Republican’s phrase “job-killing” into “job-destroying”; now it has morphed ...Read more.
