March 2009
10 posts
Goodbye, Homo Economicus By Anatole Kaletsky →
The discipline of economics should either be dismantled or completely integrated into other social science disciplines. The present crisis is, of course, inherent in capitalism and such crises will only end with our revolutionary exodus outside and beyond capitalism. Its main ideological causes, however, have come from academic economists’ development of an orthodoxy around the...
French Sony workers hold boss hostage |... →
Why Bono backed out of his debate with Dave Marsh
Dave Marsh (from Rock&Rap Confidential No. 225):
“Of course,” I added, “this was a public challenge. Backing out’s not gonna be private.” I did not ask why Bono ducked the debate. Maybe he’d come to his senses, as his apologetics for world capitalism disintegrated with the stock, housing and employment markets. Maybe he was too busy preparing the banalities he’d blare on the new album.
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Obama Is on the Spot as Rulings Aid Gay Partners -... →
Thanks to the mutability of language, Obama is in a good position to make the right decision over “whether the government must provide health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.” Apparently, whatever asshole wrote The Defense of Marriage Act back in 1996 believed “that ‘the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband...
How to stop the drug wars | The Economist ->... →
Howard the Coward: The Day My Boss Ran Away (Twin... →
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