Posts Tagged ‘ASSA’
ASSA/AEA Protests; Repubs on Bain; Davidson
(1) ASSA/AEA Protests: I apologize for the delay posting–I was in Chicago for the annual meetings of the Allied Social Sciences Association, a/k/a the American Economic Association and its marginalized poor cousins. My last post mentioned the protests that were planned. Here is an article I whipped out for the Boston Occupier (the print newspaper ...Read more.
ASSA; NYT: Socialism = enemy
I was not going to do another blog post until I’d returned from my trip out west for the Allied Social Sciences Association meetings in Denver, but after a couple of extra days out here visiting friends in Boulder, my return flight to Boston was canceled. I hope to return later today, but I needed ...Read more.
Trouble for BofA; Cash for Gaza?
(1) More bad news for Bank of America: Earlier this week Bloomberg and other outlets reported on the settlement that has BofA paying Fannie/Freddie $2.8 billion, “after the U.S.-owned firms demanded the company buy back mortgages they said were based on faulty data.” This kind of news, along with WikiLeaks’ claim (which we’ve reported here ...Read more.
A Code of Ethics for Economists
A quick holiday post: Hat-tip to KH about Gerald Epstein’s effort to get economists to adopt a code of ethics at the upcoming Allied Social Sciences Association meetings, January 6th through 9th. (These are mainly the American Economics Association meetings, but I love how the name of the umbrella association makes it sound as if ...Read more.
