The Slack Wire

Keith Richards wrote a book . A month ago, at least, you could find it on the front shelf of the Barnes & Noble, next to the Glenn Beck....

Michal Kalecki, Theory of Economic Dynamics . Kalecki is important (the hostility classical Marxists in the Shaikh/Dumenil-Levy vein feel t...

Some books I've read in the past year: Perry Anderson, The New Old World . The guy must be 90 years old, and he is still turning out th...

So I've thought for a while. I even wrote a post with this title a couple months ago, which I couldn't quite get to congeal. But Cos...

Here's an interesting factoid I came across, while poking around in the trade data ( here ): Australia has had a a current account defic...

I've observed before that to make sense of the financial press, you have to adopt the view that the world exists only as a source of pa...

At the bar the other night, they had The Walking Dead on. We do seem to be in a zombie moment right now. One can't but wonder what it m...

One of the less acknowledged of the secret sins of economists, it seems to me, is the failure to distinguish between net and gross quantit...

Is this for real? Did Bruce Sterling really write a novel in which the end of intellectual property rights leads to a complete collapse of ...

Audubon Audubon perfected a new way of drawing birds that he called his. On the bottom of each watercolor he put "drawn from nature...