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History, Aaah History

I never studied much economics until I was long out of school. I did so then to get to grips with its seeming irrelevance. I had become involved in questions of economics of the practical kind and found little – or none – of value in whatever textbooks I picked up to educate myself. I […]

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A Reply: Economics and Ethics

A correspondent of mine suggests we need to define both economics and ethics better if we are to resolve my ongoing angst with the state of the two combined. This is true. Ethics is, I think, well defined. The literature is full of notions of ethics and its evolution. Behavior that was once ethical is […]

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Weak, Very Weak Jobs Report

At this rate Obama will not be re-elected. At this rate he doesn’t deserve to be. Then again the Republicans present and even more dire prospect. Will no one rid us of this malaise. My reaction to this morning’s very weak jobs report – the US added a meager 69,000 jobs in May – is […]

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