Posts Tagged ‘economics profession’
Teaching Economics, Big-Bank Style
The New York Times, citing results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (publicized as “The Nation’s Report Card”), reports that “42 percent of high school seniors were deemed proficient in the 2006 economics test, a larger proportion than in any other subject over the last decade.” In this era of economic crisis, it would ...Read more.
Right-wing attacks labor studies
We were outraged to learn about the recent attack on our friend and colleague Judy Ancel, by the unscrupulously malignant Andrew Breitbart. The right-wing blogger, best known for creating deceptive videos that undermined the community organizing group ACORN and US Department of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod, has found a new target: labor educators. Breitbart and ...Read more.
Vegan Protest Fuel in Madison, and more
(1) Vegan Protest Fuel: Today’s syllogism: “All Wisconsinites may be cheeseheads, but not all Wisconsinites eat cheese,” therefore, vegan demonstrators need an alternative to the pizzas from Ian’s Pizza that so many people have thoughtfully donated to the efforts in Madison. Our friend Hillary Rettig is one of the people behind the Vegan Protest Fuel ...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.
Cat-Food Commission, Deficits, etc.
(1) The Cat-Food Commission–Oops!–I Mean the Deficit Commission: Two new articles posted to the D&S website just now: Deficits: Real Issue, Phony Debates, by Rick Wolff (from the Nov/Dec issue), and The Deficit Commission and Redistribution, by Darwin BondGraham (web-only). Check them out! Joshua Holland also has a great article on deficits over at Alternet: Why ...Read more.
An Evening with Fancy Economists
Readers of this blog may remember that I visited the American Academy of Arts and Sciences last spring for a forum on “Prospects for the Economy.” I blogged about that forum under the title An Evening with Fancy Bankers. As I recounted, the most memorable, and appalling, speaker on the panel was not a banker ...Read more.
