Beyond kingdoms and empires:
A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms - (Aeon) An archaeologist questions the conventional wisdom that empires were always the apogee of success.
Economics 101:Why introductory economics courses continued to teach zombie ideas from before economics became an empirical discipline
A perennial favorite: The Federal Budget Is Not Like a Household Budget: Here's Why
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman
"You Yanks don't consult the wisdom of democracy; you enable mobs." - Australian planner
Friday, July 5, 2024
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The destination of prosperity
From a tweet by Rutger Bregman: Wrote this 12 years ago, in Utopia for Realists. I didn't realize at the time how soon this scenario c...
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Here's a detailed explanation by a Modern Monetary Theory founder, Stephanie Kelton. The bottom line: Social Security's enabling l...
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Posted on March 26, 2019 by L. Randall Wray The attacks on MMT continue full steam ahead. Janet Yellen (former Fed chair, but clueless on...
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© by Mark Dempsey In the year 2000 the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked countries’ health care system outcomes according to thin...
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