Month: December 2024
**** NYTimes.com: In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
The Democratic Party needs to rethink what it means to be the party of institutions.
NYTimes.com: This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
Wolfgang Streeck has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong with globalization.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/opinion/wolfgang-streeck-populism.html?smid=em-share
Why Are You Still Cooking With That?
**** The Rise and Fall of the Word ‘Monopoly’ in American Life
The word “monopoly” was once a fixture of political discourse, writes @stacyfmitchell. Where has it gone?
****** Why Judges Let Monopolists Off the Hook
“If Americans want to protect the economy from Goliaths that trample all over workers and small businesses, Congress and the states are going to have to pass new laws that make it easier to bring, and win, antitrust cases,” @ZephyrTeachout writes:
The Great Grocery Squeeze
Food deserts “didn’t materialize around the country for no reason,” @stacyfmitchell writes. “Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZHF6lsh3gwbKjT04v0Dyvo&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
FW: Check this out on Amazon Neoliberalism books I have read
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism https://a.co/d/0rJJ7NX
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era https://a.co/d/irt7p79