Air Travel and Financialization
Financialization can seem an abstraction too far. The sheer length of the word suggests an academic boondoggle is at hand. But anyone who has taken […]
Month: March 2025
Three Plagues On Our Species – Nation States, Religion, & Capitalism
Responding to Global Warming and the Pillaging of the Earth Viewed from the perspective of the looming disaster of global warming accompanied by the exhaustion […]
A Different View of Krugman’s Data
Paul Krugman wrote a recent post, Is the Sleeping Giant Awakening about the EU. It inlcuded this chart showing the relative sizes of the economies […]
Secrecy is at the heart of capitalism
Dark money, shell corporations, 501(c)(4) funding (U.S. nonprofit groups that don’t have to disclose donors), Super PAC money, and many more terms describe the tsunami […]
Industrial Food and Econ 101 – the case of externalities
Externalities – the language of Econ 101 What are externalities? Defined in two widely used textbooks: “An externality occurs when some of the costs or […]
An Update: the $79 Trillion Heist
The scale of income transfers from the bottom 90% to the top 10% over the past 50 years just got larger! I have written at […]