Archive for December 27th, 2009
Kicking Galt in the Nads
Thorstein Veblen offers us a reasoned argument for taxing the shit out of the small number of individuals making more than $1 million a year.
Greg Mankiw links a former student courageously trying to protect the rights of Millionares not to pay more taxes here.
Here’s the thing — there are no reputable studies on the [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2009 under Politics, The Dismal Science, What Works.
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In Decline
We Americans have this bad habit of compartmentalizing our social problems into neat, isolated categories of thought that systematically destroy the dynamic relations connecting each to the other. Thus, urban education policy is examined and discussed as though the relations between academic achievement and such things as poverty, nutrition, home situation, environmental toxins, etc. are [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2009 under Public Intellectuals, The Dismal Science.
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The Spoils of War
I’ve discussed at length the relationship between education policy and the looting of the public treasury by private interests, but this dynamic is by no means unique to education. In fact, it may be one of THE defining characteristics of our current form of social organization. One of the most significant gifts bequeathed to the [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2009 under Politics.
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