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Economics, Politics, Uncategorized / capitalism, democracy, Hillary Clinton, Paul Krugman, plutocracy /

Krugman versus Sanders

February 19, 2016

Paul Krugman seems to be spending an awful lot of his time nowadays trying to discredit Bernie Sanders. The last two of his blog entries at the New York Times are devoted to explaining why Sander’s extravagant claims are wrong and potentially damaging to the Democratic cause. I can understand why Krugman is so vexed. […]

Economics / capitalism, democracy, plutocracy /

Platforms and Utilities

February 17, 2016

There’s a lot of buzz around the word “platform” right now. We are entering and age, some people tell us, of the “platform economy”. What? A platform, as I understand it, is simply a business strategy that focuses on the creation and then exploitation of an external [external to any particular business] ecosystem of complementary […]

Economics, Politics / capitalism, democracy, Hillary Clinton, neo-classical economics, neoliberalism, plutocracy /

Decline and Fall

February 17, 2016

One of the features of American politics during the past few decades has been the emphasis on togetherness. Yes I know that sounds absurd, but hear me out. Our political landscape has been carefully segregated into two separate and distinct zones: that of social conflict and that of economic harmony. The zone of social conflict is […]

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