Posts Tagged ‘OWS’
December 12, 2011
Calling Progressive Economists into the Public Square
“At many stages in the advance of humanity, this conflict between men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess is the central condition of progress” (Theodore Roosevelt, 1910)[1] Economists are the new public intellectuals of the age. read more »
November 18, 2011
Banker power trumping Democratic Power: the crisis on two continents
We live in troubled and ironic times. The times are certainly troubled. The IMF’s Managing Director has recently spoken with some justification of a looming “lost decade” for the global economy read more »
October 31, 2011
Poverty Amid Plenty – America’s Continuing Shame
The current wave of mass protest against Wall Street excess has completely reframed the public conversation in the United States. The “deficit problem” with which Washington was consumed in the first half of 2011 has not vanished from the political agenda, read more »
