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Commentary, Economics / Allyn Young, economic theory, Joan Robinson, Lionel Robbins, New Institutional Economics, Ronald Coase /

Am I An Economist?

March 14, 2016

Who knows? If measured by the standards of the current elite of the subject, then clearly not. I am apostate. I am an outsider. Let me explain: I had the good fortune to attend The London School of Economics – I only mention this because it is important later in the story. It was too long […]

Economics, Politics / capitalism, democracy, Karl Polanyi, plutocracy /

Why Trump?

March 10, 2016

I have become so enmeshed in political activity here that I rarely have time to reflect on the strangeness of it all. Why Trump? Why now? But I was prompted to think a little harder about it when I re-read the following in Karl Polanyi’s “The Great Transformation”: “Market society was born in England – yet it […]

Economics, Politics / capitalism, democracy, Hillary Clinton, plutocracy, Trump /

Trumped?

March 2, 2016

My head hurts this morning. I don’t know why I would be so disoriented by Trump’s continued rise to power, it was, after all very predictable once he entered the race, but it still hurts. And, yes, it was predictable. The Republican party has steadily vanished into a haze of obstreperous religious business driven drivel […]

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