The Radford Free Press – Page 131 – All life is problem solving.

Questions – Add Your Voice

February 20, 2015

There’s been a lot of excitement about changing the substance of economics and the way it is taught. Rightly so. But that, it seems to me, just begs the question: “What is economics?” Or, rather, it begs a series of questions. None of us can pretend to have the answer since the answer is surely […]

Economics / ASCE Report, austerity, government spending, infrastructure, Obama, Paul Ryan, Republicans /

Infrastructure [Non]Spending

February 18, 2015

Apparently one of the very few areas of likely cooperation between the White House and our newly energized all-Republican Congress is spending on our lamentable infrastructure. I am sufficiently cynical that I doubt we will see much more than a great deal of handwringing and posturing before the two sides retreat back into their well […]

Economics / austerity, Greece, plutocracy, Varoufakis /

By The People, For The People?

February 17, 2015

Here’s a thought: how about the governments in our democracies acting on behalf of the people? That would be novel. We here in America could do worse than listen to Yanis Varoufakis on the notions of what a representative government is supposed to do. Notably represent. That is represent those who elected the representatives. I […]

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