The Radford Free Press – Page 94 – All life is problem solving.

Economics / austerity, capitalism, democracy, Hayek, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, plutocracy, Tony Judt, von Mises /

Trump, Denial and The End of Normal

August 10, 2016

Shocking is an understatement. Donald Trump is unfit for public office, be it town clerk or president of the US. He’s an unbalanced egomaniac. He’s a racist. He’s an immature misogynist. He’s many other awful things. Presidential, he is not. How did we get here? Failure. But a particular kind of failure. Failure dressed as success. […]

Economics / capitalism, democracy, plutocracy /

Spot The Crisis

July 21, 2016

We hear it all the time. It is a relentless drum beat on the left. Capitalism, we are told, is in crisis. This crisis is manifested in all sorts of ways. We – meaning those of us on the left – need to prepare. We need to counter attack. We need to seize this moment […]

Economics / capitalism, democracy, economic theory, Keynes, plutocracy /

Notes to Myself

July 20, 2016

First. With respect to my summer reading. I have always been fascinated by information. Its role in the economy; its nature; and its effect on our institutions. Equally I am usually horrified by the abuse information gets in economic theory. To me asymmetries of information are the reason economies exist. They are the cause of […]