External Costs, Global Warming, Forever Plastics, and Orthodox Economics
Thoughts after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s “Time to Wake Up 298: The 10th Our Oceans Conference” No sooner had I finished my earlier post, “‘Outdated and […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Hard Data about Ultraprocessed Foods and Health – Sugar in the spotlight
Over several decades, there has been increasing discussion of the role of ultra-processed foods in our health. Globally, surging levels of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and […]
Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? – from the NYTimes
Ben Casselman wrote this piece in the 1.10.2025 NYTimes: “Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence?” The article cites […]
Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? – from the NYTimes
Ben Casselman wrote this piece in the 1.10.2025 NYTimes: “Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence?” The article cites […]
$47 Trillion – the ripoff by the rich and corporations – in two charts – maybe a few more…..
I was already 31 years old when the rip-off of America began in 1979. I was busy, and the changes in American life were only […]