
Month: March 2014


“The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.” (Professor David Korten)

Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America
Historic Gender Breakthrough: Women aged between 25 and 30 earn slightly more per hour than men, according to the Dutch statistics office.

Art and Money. Artists no longer simply create art, they make markets

Market Rationality (under complete information, of course…)
Why are banking systems unstable in some countries–but not in others? Since 1840, the US had 12 crises; Canada had none.
“Critical political economy and capitalist diversity” — the Capital & Class journal special issue.
Name and Shame: Columbia University fired two Public Intellectuals because they hadn’t brought in enough grants

From Political Economy to Economics: the Desocialisation and Dehistoricisation of the Dismal Science
Corporate density is especially potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits—but not social welfare nonprofits—when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization
Noam Chomsky on the neoliberalization, marketization and managerialization of higher education

“Well-behaved Women seldom make History” (Laurel T. Ulrich)
“The Crises of Capitalism”, a animated clip narrated by Prof. David Harvey

Ludwig Lachmann: “Mechanistic theories are bound to produce results which look automatic”
