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26.The Ironies of Imperialism: Haiti vs. India (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
I first criticized the Green Revolution in
Perelman, Michael. 1971. “Second Thoughts on the Green Revolution.” The New Republic, v. 165 (17 July): pp. 21-22; and then in a book, Farming for Profit in a Hungry World.
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27.Me, interviewed… (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
…by the excellent folks at The Activist, the YDS webzine: Unconventional Wisdom.
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28.Hassan Nasrallah: Israel Is at an Impasse (montages.blogspot.com)
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29.Laura Agustín in New York, March 10 (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
Come hear the excellent Laura Agustín in New York. And if you haven’t already, check out my interview with her here.
Trafficking, migration and the sex industry: Framing the questions, providing the proofs
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30.Sex, Lies, and Economics: The Amazing Story of Economics and Economists Before Adam Smith (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
I am getting ready to send out my proposal for my new book. If anyone has any comments on this, I would be most appreciative.
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31.Iran: The Islamic Revolution Defeats Western Hopes for Regime Change (montages.blogspot.com)
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32.Obama luvs business (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
More nuggets from Obama’s interview with the freshly renamed Bloomberg BusinessWeek, now under new management.
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33.Obama luvs bankers (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
From Bloomberg, via Politico’s Morning Money:
OBAMA DOESN’T ‘BEGRUDGE’ BONUSES FOR ‘SAVVY’ WALL STREET EXECS, Bloomberg’s Julianna Goldman and Ian Katz report: ‘President Barack Obama said he doesn’... -
34.The morality of banking (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
From The Philosophy of Joint-Stock Banking by the Scottish financier G.M. Bell, quoted by Marx in Capital vol. 3:
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35.Move your money? (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
Freshly posted to the LBO website: behind Huffington’s loopy “Move your money” campaign: …and it’s still money.
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36.Banning Foreign Companies’ Campaign Contributions (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
Many companies have tried to reduce taxes by incorporating abroad — the so-called Bermuda Inversion. Wouldn’t the banning of foreign campaign contributions apply to them.
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37.Alistair Hulett (montages.blogspot.com)
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38.Finance vs. Independence at the Fed (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
Richard Smith is a historian who is doing a biography about my mother’s cousin.
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39.The Ideological Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
This short section from my forthcoming Invisible Handcuffs discusses the ideological use of cost-benefit analysis.
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40.Obama is not a Wimp (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
Barack Obama gave the appearance of meekly appealing for bipartisanship, only to get kicked in his private parts. Yet, look how courageously he is willing to take on the liberals and his party. Along with Larry Summers and Rahm Emanuel, he can really...
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41.Movie Theaters and Guard Labor (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
In 1963, I was a ticket taker in a small art theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I took the tickets and then for the last show, I had to sit by the door and make sure that nobody came in during the middle of the movie. I am also a relative of the Warner [...
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42.Guard Labor (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
My article on Guard Labor is in the new issue of Dollars and Sense. It is extracted from my forthcoming book, The Invisible Handcuffs.
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2010/0110toc.html
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43.Radio commentary, January 21, 2010 (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
In the economic news, more stumbling along the bottom. On Thursday morning, the Labor Department (not, by the way, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the main source of data in that agency, but in this case the Employment and Training Administration, anot...
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44.Radio commentary, January 14, 2010 (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
I’m going to keep the opening comments pretty short today. Though some of you have already heard my analysis of the December employment report, the WBAI audience hasn’t. So a quick reprise of that. In a phrase: quite disappointing. It looked for a bit ...
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45.The Hypocrisy of Corporate Personhood (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like.” — often misquoted as “Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no...
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46.Haiti Everywhere (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
“Much was said this night against the parliament. I said that, as it seemed to be agreed that all Members of Parliament became corrupted, letter to chuse men already bad, and so save good.”
James Boswell
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48.Off the Table or Under the Table: Economics vs. Health Care (michaelperelman.wordpress.com)
Apparently, the Obama folks are following the Bush precedent, paying Johathan Gruber, a health care economist, under the table — at least he seems to have done nothing to let it be known — to influence the health care debate
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49.No money? (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which runs the transit operations in and around New York City, is facing a budget shortfall of around $400 million. There are likely to be deep cuts to subway and bus service in New York City. There is, ...
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50.Dennis Brutus memorial (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
There’s going to be a memorial for Dennis Brutus, the South African poet and activist, at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street, between Bank and Bethune Streets, NYC, Sunday, January 17, at 2 PM.
For my interview with Brutus (a rebroadcast of a show...
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