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The New School is imposing a requirement that all full-time faculty report on their work, stating that it will cut pay and health benefits for those who don't comply
Leaving aside the legality of this unilateral change in our contracts, this is straight up strikebreaking
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My lecture today 12pm-2pm Eastern Standard Time in the US, on the structure and empirical content of Real Economic Analysis. Please share
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I recently learnt that the former chair of my department, John Buettner-Janusch, continued to publish from federal prisons following his original conviction for turning our departmental wet lab into a commercial drugs lab for LSD & quaaludes.
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A population-weghted equivalent of the citizenship rent (on a global scale) is given by the between-country component of global inequality (blue bar). As can be seen, it has been going down since the turn of the century thanks to high growth rates of China, India etc.
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"We’re occupying schools across the world to protest climate inaction | End Fossil: Occupy!" theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Trump probably came to believe his own lies (perhaps only at a certain moments) and with a sort of instrumental reason as so many fascists did before him...
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Pequena entrevista à professora feita dentro da matéria realizada pela Secretária Executiva de Comunicação da UNICAMP em 1986 na inauguração do Instituto de Economia.
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ECOLOGICAL CRISIS LED TO...
1) In FRANCE, where 64 areas experienced record high temperatures, at least three wildfires raged, two of which burned nearly 80 square miles of forest and forced the evacuation of 37,000 people and +
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Jamie Galbraith on the "old instinct of the central bank to ensure that there is a long queue of people at the gate" (bloom.bg/3b4QSbw)
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SHIPPING LANES!
Mind-blowing, it seems that the Northern Atlantic has the heaviest traffic.
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O carinho pela presidenta corajosa, que enfrentou a ditadura, a presidência e um golpe misógino, que abriu uma avenida para Bolsonaro tentar nos destruir. Não conseguiram, não conseguirão.
Seremos milhões na defesa da igualdade, da democracia e da soberania nacional.
How does one distinguish between corporate profits benefitting from inflation and corporate profits contributing to inflation? This depends on your theory of inflation itself (see Shaikh, A. (2016). Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises, OUP, Ch. 15)
Corporate profits have contributed disproportionately to inflation. How should policymakers respond? | Economic Policy Institute epi.org/blog/corporate-profi…
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inter-personal inequality in heavily class-based societies. I continue with several possible evolutions of inequality that can be culled up from Marx.
I continue w/ inter-personal distributions and Pareto, then with Kuznets, and finish with Piketty and Kuznets waves.