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    A New Year — Happy or Not

    January 1, 2017

    I am not going to become involved in endless analysis of Trump’s presidency. I think we ought let it speak for itself. Nor am I going to waste space critiquing the huge contribution that academic economics has made to Trump’s rise to power. I think the anti-democratic nature of mainstream economics is both palpable and […]

    Politics / capitalism, democracy, democratic party, Hillary Clinton, plutocracy, Trump /

    Why Trump Won?

    December 7, 2016

    I listened last night to Matt Dickinson from Middlebury college give a talk about the recent election. This is my synopsis: The election did not represent much of a change in voter patterns. Trump’s victory was based more on a tweak rather than a reconstruction of the voting patterns of the 2012 election. So this […]

    Economics, Politics / capitalism, Coase, democracy, economic theory, Hayek, plutocracy, Trump /

    Early Days and Libertarian Love

    December 2, 2016

    It is early, but already we see the shape of the next few years. It’s going to be ugly. Trump’s cabinet is taking on the look of an antithetical. Practically every choice so far turns out to be a near negation of the mission of the department they are nominated to run. And if not […]

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