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Books Sought
Fiction ( Read more... ) -
for future reference
Economists ( Read more... ) -
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There's always a lot of clamor this time of year about the injustice that is businesses choosing to remain open on Thanksgiving day and the travesty of Black Friday deal-hunters scrambling over one another to get their mitts on the last Sony PS4. Critics accuse businesses of exploitation and insensitivity, but they're missing one crucial fact: A ( Read more... ) -
political economy for the masses
Before something can be distributed, it has to be produced--it is an empty rhetorical trick to promise certain provisions as a matter of right before these provisions have come into existence. there's a longstanding misunderstanding in political economy that the aggregate of each individual's effort somehow no longer belongs to the individuals who' ( Read more... ) -
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Walmart store openings destroy three local jobs for every two they create by reducing retail employment by an average of 2.7 percent in every county they enter ( Read more... ) -
SONIC BOOM
Walmart store openings destroy three local jobs for every two they create by reducing retail employment by an average of 2.7 percent in every county they enter ( Read more... ) -
Boutiques and Haberdasheries
The Law of One Price ( Read more... ) -
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Just watched Dark Knight Rises for the third time and I have to say, it's probably my favorite of the Nolan saga. Themes that stuck out: Inequality, justice, law, chain of command, procedure, due process, terror, terror as a political tactic, commerce, money, power, physical strength, energy, resources, asymmetry, loyalty, love, betrayal, greed, ( Read more... ) -
Sellout!
Selling out, elitism, watering-down, vulgarization... how the punk concept of "selling out" is patently elitist, meant to protect something "pure" from being adulterated and shared more broadly. Imagine a bottle of fine, aged bourbon. Watering it down so that it could be enjoyed by a greater mass of people would be deemed utterly depraved. This ( Read more... ) -
America
Yeah, but what has it done for us lately?