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    Is Democracy a “thing”?

    September 4, 2025

    Demos/Kratia.  The people rule.   Really?  This is a provocation … I realize that this sounds a bit odd: but does “democracy” really exist in any meaningful way? I ask this in the context of the recent rash of angst here in America.  The arrival of an avowedly authoritarian regime along with its “Project 2025” […]

    Economics / capitalism, economic theory, plutocracy /

    Where to Next?

    August 7, 2025

    A veritable blizzard hit me this morning.  A blizzard, that is, of articles and various snippets that seem to tangle together somehow.  They speak to deep transformations.  And yet none of their authors offered that depth.  Such is our moment.  I wonder when, and indeed if, this will all make sense.  Perhaps we will have […]

    Economics / economic theory, Ha-Joon Chang /

    Well Said Ha-Joon Chang!

    July 24, 2025

    I shouldn’t.  But I will  Well, well.  Is there life in economics yet? Not so fast. My own journey into the swamp of economics began in the late 1980s when, out of the blue, my boss at the bank decided that because I had attended LSE I ought to be conversant with the subject.  That […]

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