Peter Edelman on Changing the Poverty Landscape
This essay in the NYT lays out the poverty situation in America eloquently: Low-wage jobs bedevil tens of millions of people. At the other end of the low-income spectrum we have a different problem....
View ArticleIdeas over Interests
Dani Rodrik on the economists’ role in bringing about the most recent financial crisis: In the aftermath of the financial crisis, it became fashionable for economists to decry the power of big banks....
View ArticleND Expert on the SOTU
One of Notre Dame’s most hyped economics hires offers some critical opinions on Obama’s the State of the Union, though his remarks really sound more like something one would hear on a conservative talk...
View ArticleBut their beauty can be blinding
Mathematician David Orrell writes in a new book that scientific truths may not always be “beautiful” and “elegant” theories: It is easier to claim a theory is beautiful than to show that it actually...
View ArticleA Non-Euclidean World
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping...
View ArticlePathologies of Power
In the Forward to Paul Farmer’s Pathologies of Power, Amartya Sen writes on the importance of power in the developing world, For example, if inequality of power, in different forms, is central to...
View ArticleThe Retirement Gamble
PBS Frontline has an excellent program “The Retirement Gamble” about how complicated financial instruments are used to confuse and take advantage of people who are trying to save for their retirement...
View ArticleTwo American Families
Bill Moyers has a great interview on the Colbert Report this week, regarding his new documentary that follows 2 middle class families since the 1990s. He quotes Jim Hightower: The real question is not...
View ArticleIt is Capitalism
It is Capitalism that has forced a moral feud and a commercial competition between the sexes; that has destroyed the influence of the parent in favour of the influence of the employer; that has driven...
View ArticleKenneth Arrow on Markets
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Kenneth Arrow, one of the most prominent economists, available from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Region: In 1978, you wrote an article for Dissent...
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