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    The Times Are A’Changing – Uber Style

    February 22, 2016

    Well at least in my head. One of the reasons this year’s presidential election is so interesting is that it is the first where younger voters – aka the “millennial generation” – will make up the same proportion of the electorate as do baby boomers. The times, as the baby boomer song goes, are a’changing. […]

    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 […]

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