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1.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 ...
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2.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...
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3.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 ... -
4.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.
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5.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
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6.The Iranian Diaspora after the Green Wave (montages.blogspot.com)
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7.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...
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8.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... -
9.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... -
10.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...
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11.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 ... -
12.IRIB in Japanese (montages.blogspot.com)
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13.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 (... -
14.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
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15.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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16.Me, interviewed… (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
…by the excellent folks at The Activist, the YDS webzine: Unconventional Wisdom.
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17.Hassan Nasrallah: Israel Is at an Impasse (montages.blogspot.com)
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18.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
Lecture by Laura Agustín, author of Sex at the... -
19.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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20.Iran: The Islamic Revolution Defeats Western Hopes for Regime Change (montages.blogspot.com)
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21.Obama luvs business (doughenwood.wordpress.com)
More nuggets from Obama’s interview with the freshly renamed Bloomberg BusinessWeek, now under new management.
The irony is, is that on the left we are perceived as being in the pockets of big business; and then on the business side, we are perce... -
22.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’... -
23.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:
Banking establishments are moral and religious institutions. How often has the fear of being seen by the watchful and reproving eye of his... -
24.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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25.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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