The Slack Wire

There's a lot to like in this talk by Mark Blyth , reposted in Jacobin. I will certainly be quoting him in the future on the euro system...

An interesting fact about the world we live in is that, for all the talk about robots replacing human labor, every item of clothing you ow...

The new issue of Rethinking Marxism  has my review of The Crisis of Neoliberalism by Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy. Since RM is paywall...

(I originally posted this as a series of comments on a 2012 post at Steve Randy Waldman's Interfluidity . In that post, Steve suggested...

Part II of Capital begins with a puzzle: In markets, commodities are supposed to trade only for other commodities of equal value, yet someh...

From today's  New York Times story about the new crop of billion-dollar internet startups: Most of these chief executives are also v...

Krugman is puzzled  by the European Central Bank: I’ve been hearing various attempts to explain the ECB’s utterly bizarre refusal to cut i...

The New York Times paywall is here. Felix Salmon has the details, and what looks like the definitive critique: What does all this mean for...

I don't have much to add to Mike Konczal's respectful but thorough rebuttal of the idea that the passage of health care reform mark...