crookedtimber.org
“With Notably Rare Exceptions” — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2011/03/30/with-notably-rare-exceptions
8220;With Notably Rare Exceptions”. March 30, 2011. Alan Greenspan is back as free market evangelist. And it’s rather wonderful. Today’s competitive markets, whether we seek to recognise it or not, are driven by an international version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” that is unredeemably opaque. With notably rare exceptions (2008, for example), the global “invisible hand” has created relatively stable exchange rates, interest rates, prices, and wage rates. 033011 at 1:39 pm. 033011 at 1:44 pm. With not...
goldennotebooks.blogspot.com
The Golden Notebooks: March 2015
http://goldennotebooks.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html
Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Monday, March 23, 2015. Family legend has it she once had five boys call her in a single night to ask her to the same dance - I can believe it looking at this picture. Happy birthday Baubs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Kafka with a Happy Ending," in Open Letters Monthly. A Walker in the City" in Open Letters Monthly. Hitler's Bathtub" in Narrative. My Brooklyn," in Jacobin. I'm a te...
goldennotebooks.blogspot.com
The Golden Notebooks: May 2014
http://goldennotebooks.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html
Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The Intractability of Op-Ed Habits. The first paragraph of T he New York Times. S obituary for Vincent Harding. Scholar and co-author of Martin Luther King's brilliant and always-relevant anti-war speech, "Beyond Vietnam," refers to that speech as "polarizing" and notes that it "touched off a firestorm," condemned by Life Magazine and the NAACP. A Walker in...
goldennotebooks.blogspot.com
The Golden Notebooks: January 2015
http://goldennotebooks.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html
Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. 8 Approaches to the Papers/Grading Dillemma. A while back, Rebecca Shuman had a piece on Slate. That proposed a simple solution: stop doing it. Stop giving papers, stop grading them. Like a lot of her pieces, it was a combination of a solid insight with broad generalization and pure- Slate. Of them in any class. And Rethinking Schools,. 2) Try to give st...
marxianreflections.blogspot.com
Marx, Baseball, and Rum?: Status Quo in a White Man's World...
http://marxianreflections.blogspot.com/2014/11/status-quo-in-white-mans-world.html
Marx, Baseball, and Rum? My Thoughts on: Marxism, Living Under American Capitalism, Marxian Philosophy, Baseball, Economics, Alcohol, and any other topic I feel like writing about. Status Quo in a White Man's World. Thanks to Adrian for reminding me of the MLK quote. So this is tricky, am I condoning violence and riot? I'll leave it to MLK on this one. Have a peaceful day everyone. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. BALM FOR THE SOUL. Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Does geert h...
marxianreflections.blogspot.com
Marx, Baseball, and Rum?: 4/21/13 - 4/28/13
http://marxianreflections.blogspot.com/2013_04_21_archive.html
Marx, Baseball, and Rum? My Thoughts on: Marxism, Living Under American Capitalism, Marxian Philosophy, Baseball, Economics, Alcohol, and any other topic I feel like writing about. Congratulations to Fellow UMass Economist(s). Thomas Herndon is getting a lot of attention for his critical replication paper, that attacks the data / methods of a paper by Harvard's Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Http:/ nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/grad-student-who-shook-global-austerity-movement.html. This Blog...
leisurerhymestreasure.blogspot.com
Leisure Rhymes Treasure: July 2012
http://leisurerhymestreasure.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html
Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Whence the Literary Bankers? Last week my friend Robert sent me the following email:. What is our closest analogue—something like American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis? That book belongs to a more confident (pre-lapsarian? Era in American finance. But then the scary thought is that perhaps, despite the crisis, nothing has really changed and the world of American Psycho still exists. Faulkner, Nabokov, Proust, Forester, …. What do you think? Sunday, July 15, 2012. I pitied thee;.
leisurerhymestreasure.blogspot.com
Leisure Rhymes Treasure: The Prisoner's Dilemmas
http://leisurerhymestreasure.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-prisoners-dilemmas.html
Saturday, August 18, 2012. Fiction has its limits, and economics seems to lie at the outer frontiers. The Shylocks, the Roarks, the critters in Animal Farm. Yet there remain enough places where these problems might be avoided. Whence the Literary Bankers. The actors in A.D. Miller's novel Snowdrops. A corpse that lies buried or hidden in the winter snows, emerging only in the thaw." We can sense from the beginning that Nick's client, "the Cossack" is hardly an honest merchant. Nick knows it too&#...It is...
leisurerhymestreasure.blogspot.com
Leisure Rhymes Treasure: Whence the Literary Bankers?
http://leisurerhymestreasure.blogspot.com/2012/07/last-week-my-friend-robert-sent-me.html
Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Whence the Literary Bankers? Last week my friend Robert sent me the following email:. What is our closest analogue—something like American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis? That book belongs to a more confident (pre-lapsarian? Era in American finance. But then the scary thought is that perhaps, despite the crisis, nothing has really changed and the world of American Psycho still exists. Faulkner, Nabokov, Proust, Forester, …. What do you think? July 31, 2012 at 3:17 PM. If this is rig...
leisurerhymestreasure.blogspot.com
Leisure Rhymes Treasure: August 2012
http://leisurerhymestreasure.blogspot.com/2012_08_01_archive.html
Saturday, August 18, 2012. Fiction has its limits, and economics seems to lie at the outer frontiers. The Shylocks, the Roarks, the critters in Animal Farm. Yet there remain enough places where these problems might be avoided. Whence the Literary Bankers. The actors in A.D. Miller's novel Snowdrops. A corpse that lies buried or hidden in the winter snows, emerging only in the thaw." We can sense from the beginning that Nick's client, "the Cossack" is hardly an honest merchant. Nick knows it too&#...It is...
