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Economics, Politics / economic policy, Glenn Hubbard, Inside Job, Jeb Bush, tax cuts /

Jeb!’s Tax Plan Blues

September 10, 2015

Silly season is well and truly underway. Earlier this week Jeb! – formerly known as Jeb Bush – released his great spanking new tax plan. Except there wasn’t much new in it. We’ve seen all of it before, but usually in separate pieces. Undaunted by the spectacular failure of his brother’s 2001 and 2003 tax […]

Economics, Politics / economic theory, economics curriculum, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, wages /

A Voter Takes on Econ 101

September 9, 2015

There is little more depressing than American presidential politics at the moment. It is, to borrow a phrase, theater of the absurd. Hillary Clinton is apologizing for running personal email server at her home and then using it for official business. Some of that business has subsequently been re-classified as containing sensitive material. So her […]

Economics, Politics / Balibar, capitalism, democracy, libertarian economics, marxism, plutocracy /

Let’s All Blame Capitalism

September 2, 2015

Well, actually let’s not. Just as much as I decry single minded adherence to what I have called the binary vision of our world, as in markets are great, the state is bad, I also object to laying all the blame for our multitude of ills at the feet of capitalism. Simple answers to complicated questions […]

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