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  • 1.
    Alyssa Katz: Our Lot (alyssakatz.com)

    Katz was interviewed on the June 25 2009 Behind the News episode on the homeownership myth in the U.S. .

    1 point by aaronsta to Economics 8 months ago
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  • 2.
    Radio commentary, May 23, 2009 (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    [WBAI’s still fundraising; if you haven’t, please think of donating here, specifying Behind the News as your favorite show. Management changes at the station are the most hopeful thing that’s happened there in years. This week’s show ran only on KPFA, ...

    2 points 8 months ago
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  • 3.
    Action for a Progressive Pakistan - About (progpak.wordpress.com)
    2 points by aaronsta to Politics 8 months ago
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  • 4.
    Action for a Progressive Pakistan: Rethinking Pakistan (progpak.wordpress.com)

    Post has links to video of a panel at the Left Forum, April 18, 2009. Panel title was: "Rethinking 'the most dangerous place in the world': the War on Terror in Pakistan." Speakers were: Rakhshanda Saleem (Moderator), Saadia Toor, Sahar Shafqat, Madiha Tahir, and Sofia Checa.

    1 point by aaronsta to Politics 8 months ago
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  • 5.
    Support WBAI, and my show (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    WBAI is fundraising, and I’m doing my major stint from 4-6 tomorrow (Thursday). If you like the show, and you’ve got some spare change, please make a pledge during my time slot.
    I’ve got some good news about WBAI, for a change. The st...

    1 point 8 months ago
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  • 6.
    Participatory Society Reddit (www.reddit.com)

    A small list of links relevant to participatory society/participatory economics, using software similar (in conception at least) to Digg .

    1 point by aaronsta to Politics 8 months ago
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  • 7.
    Be Like Rostam (montages.blogspot.com)
    1 point 8 months ago
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  • 8.
    European vs. U.S. Unemployment Explained (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    When Jaimie Galbraith is good, he can be very good. Here is an example, explaining European unemployment as a result of inequality rather than social democracy. After explaining the close association between inequality and unemployment, he goes on:
    97:...

    1 point 8 months ago
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  • 9.
    Economics as a Moral Science? (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    I am quickly dashing off the text for lecture for the Campus Peace Institute.  What I have is a bit rough, but I would appreciate any feedback.
    Thanks.
    http://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/peace.pdf

    0 points 11 hours ago
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  • 10.
    China’s Economic Nationalism? (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    Today’s Wall Street Journal expresses shock that China is resorting to economic nationalism, which is supposed to be the exclusive right of the U.S. After all, China’s economy seems to be performing better than the U.S. — at least un...

    0 points 2 days ago
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  • 11.
    Manufacturing Discontent (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    I was asked to write something up about my book, Manufacturing Discontent. I thought that I would share it with you. Any comments would be be appreciated.
    Of all my books, Manufacturing Discontent may seem to have the least links with Marxism. After...

    0 points 3 days ago
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  • 12.
    The Art of Political Lying (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    In 1712, John Arbuthnot, chiefly known as a satirist, considered second only to Jonathan Swift, was also the Queen Anne’s doctor and a Fellow of the Royal Society, proposed the publication of a book with two volumes, titled, The Art of Political ...

    0 points 5 days ago
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  • 13.
    Great moments in real estate (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    Been meaning to post this for a while. These are neighboring buildings at the intersection of Smith St and Atlantic Av in Brooklyn (40 41′19.2″ N, 73 59′21.6″ W, says the iPhone). The building on the left is a “luxury” high-rise...

    0 points 6 days ago
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  • 14.
    Radio commentary, March 13, 2010 (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    Recovery watch
    In a business cycle update, the grinding slog of a recovery continues. Last week, we learned that the job market looked got a little less bad in February than it was getting for most of 2009. On Friday, we learned that the retail sector ...

    0 points 6 days ago
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  • 15.
    Brief Thoughts about Chico’s Education Protest (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    I was thrilled to see the large outpouring of emotion from the demonstration protesting the evisceration of the University. I have not seen anything like this since the Vietnam protests of the early 70s.
    In Chico, before I came, people were so disgus...

    0 points 9 days ago
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  • 16.
    Laura Agustín in NYC, tonight. Go! (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    Wish I could go, but I can’t. If you can, please do. She’s excellent, and needs support in case NOW sends hecklers.

    Trafficking, migration and the sex industry: Framing the questions, Providing the proofs
    Wednesday, March 10, 2010
    6:45pm...

    0 points 10 days ago
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  • 17.
    The Iranian Diaspora after the Green Wave (montages.blogspot.com)
    0 points 11 days ago
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  • 18.
    Enough Already: Venting Over Four Decades of Right-Wing Activism (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    Today, Richard Nixon would be considered a flaming liberal. In Nixon’s day, Barack Obama would have passed as a typical conservative; except, if you remove considerations of civil rights from consideration, he might even be a fairly hard line co...

    0 points 11 days ago
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  • 19.
    Tuition piece up (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    Ok, the promised piece on college inflation is up.
    As the wage premium for education has expanded, college has gotten a lot more expensive. Why, and what’s this done to access (and with it, class mobility)?
    From LBO #125, just posted to the web: “I’m b...

    0 points 11 days ago
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  • 20.
    Radio commentary, Feburary 6, 2010 (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    [Sorry for the delay. Better late than never, I hope.]
    suburban poverty
    In our national imaginary, suburbs are places of affluence, and even a complacent isolation from social problems. As is often the case with received wisdom, this one’s in need of a...

    0 points 12 days ago
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  • 21.
    Don’t believe the Manhattan Institute (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    In a few hours, I’ll be posting the piece on how expensive college has gotten and why to the LBO website. In the meanwhile, a dreadful article, “Why the Student Protesters Are Wrong,” published by a Manhattan Institute front called Minding the Campus n...

    0 points 12 days ago
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  • 22.
    Lobbyists and Crises (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    Is anybody familiar with this study?
    “The International Monetary Fund recently found that banks that spent more to influence policy over the last decade were more likely to take more securitization risks, have larger loan defaults and experience ...

    0 points 14 days ago
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  • 23.
    IRIB in Japanese (montages.blogspot.com)
    0 points 15 days ago
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  • 24.
    Clean Coal? (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)

    A company now plans to run nuclear power plants off the radioactive residue of coal ash.
    Winning, David. 2009. “Out of the Ashes: A Small Mining Company Has Big Plans to Sell the Uranium Left Over When Coal Is Burned.” Wall Street Journal (...

    0 points 21 days ago
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  • 25.
    LBO 125 out (doughenwood.wordpress.com)

    Left Business Observer #125 is out! Already emailed to electronic subscribers, and on press for the dead tree contingent.
    Contents:

    a risky return to the familiar
    college: best way to make a buck, especially if you’ve already got a few
    contemplating ...

    0 points 22 days ago
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