President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Detroit sports fan. Musically inclined. Sailor

Bolinas, Ca
Joined April 2008
It has been a great pleasure to work with and learn from these extraordinary scholars who combine creativity, rigor and relevance to address the challenges on the horizon. Congratulations to the 2024 Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences @NobelPrize @DAcemogluMIT @baselinescene & James Robinson
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YOU PLAYED A BIG ROLE IN CREATING THAT IMPORTANT RESULT
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Marx on Ricardo: "For Ricardo men are nothing, the product everything." "Ricardo is allowing political economy to speak its own language, and if it does not speak ethically, this is not Ricardo's fault." (Economic & philosophic manuscripts 1844).
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Rob Johnson retweeted
If you don't live in Israel or consume Israeli media, you don't know who Yair Golan is. He is a 61-year-old retired Major General in the Israel army and a former parliament MP. Spend a minute to read this story. Yesterday, when IDF and the police were in complete chaos, Golan put on his old uniform, took his weapon, and drove into the war zone multiple times to rescue civilians under fire. He rescued two young adults hiding under a bush after 260 of their friends were murdered at an outdoor party. He answered a call from a journalist that his son was hiding under fire and simply said, "Give me his location, and I will bring him back home." An hour later, the son called his father from Golan's car. Golan collected a small crew and went in and out of the war zone, rescuing dozens of people while exchanging fire with Hamas terrorists. He is 61, he could have stayed home, but he chose to risk his life for people he does not know. Golan is one of the strongest voices from the Israeli left and was constantly attacked by the right wing in Israel. But when the time came, he was first fighting the barbaric attack. The same brain wiring that supports peace, is often the same wiring that drives people to do the right thing. A true hero.
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Angus Deaton, Nobel Memorial Laureate, on the state of economics: “The time has come, Deaton argues, for economists to get back to serving society. ‘The discipline has become unmoored from its proper basis, which is the study of human welfare’” theguardian.com/inequality/2…
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Saw this bumper sticker yesterday
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Our planet has just endured the hottest summer on record. Climate breakdown has begun. We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos. We don’t have a moment to lose. public.wmo.int/en/media/pres…
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I dislike the term Polycrisis, it sounds to me like saying ‘governing is hard’ for an anxious elite that hates taking responsibility for anything.
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