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2025- Saturday, November 15 | Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus
- Sunday, April 27 | I Got Scammed Three Times this Month (And I Thought I was Too Smart)
- Thursday, March 20 | A Tomb for Tommy
- Wednesday, December 27 | You’re Invited to A New Year’s Eve Celebration of the Life of Tom Haines
- Wednesday, December 27 | Happy New Year 2024 (originally 12/16/23)
- Monday, December 18 | Thomas Haines, Biochemist Who Founded the CUNY Medical School, Dies at 90
- Tuesday, July 5 | Debt Relief for Whom? Part II
- Tuesday, July 5 | Debt Relief for Whom? Part I
- Tuesday, May 3 | The Last Tour Guide to Leave Cuba
- Thursday, February 24 | Survival of the Richest Turfholders, Not the Fittest Individuals
- Monday, February 14 | Henry George: Prophet of the Gilded Age
- Friday, December 10 | Tom Haines Jay Walks Again
- Saturday, July 10 | Fighting the Wealth Hoarders with Transparency and Taxes
- Saturday, July 10 | Taxing More from the Rich Is Difficult. This Is How to Do It.
- Saturday, July 10 | Interview About Monopoly with Paul Jay on The Analysis
- Saturday, July 10 | Review of “Liberty from All Masters,” by Barry C. Lynn
- Monday, March 8 | Review of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted
- Thursday, October 29 | Review of Break ‘Em Up by Zephyr Teachout
- Saturday, September 5 | Review of Thomas Frank’s “The People, No”
- Tuesday, July 28 | Mason Gaffney, October 18, 1923-July 16, 2020
- Thursday, May 21 | Webinar with Richard Vague, author of A Brief History of Doom, May 17, 2020
- Saturday, November 16 | The Big Bean Bubble
- Friday, July 19 | Review: A Brief History of Doom by Richard Vague
- Friday, April 26 | Garlic, Cancer, and the Public Funding of Scientific Research
- Saturday, September 29 | How the U.S. Military Protects and Enriches Multinational Speculators
- Tuesday, June 26 | From Germany to America: A Dialog on Inequality
- Tuesday, June 26 | How Colonies Can Liberate Themselves by Taxing Real Estate
- Sunday, December 10 | Putting Land and Power Back into Economics
- Tuesday, November 21 | The Democrats Confront Monopoly
- Saturday, August 19 | Part II Beauty, Cooperation, and the Hadza Hunter-Gatherers
- Tuesday, August 8 | Beauty and Profit: The Evolution of Beauty (2017) by Richard O. Prum
- Thursday, May 11 | The Dissing of Henry George
- Monday, April 17 | What’s the Matter with Wisconsin?
- Tuesday, March 28 | The 7 Secrets of the Prolific
- Tuesday, October 18 | Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
- Sunday, September 4 | James Galbraith Tells Us What Everyone Needs to Know About Inequality
- Sunday, September 4 | David and Goliath, or Why the One Percent Has to Rig the System
- Tuesday, July 26 | John Perkins’ New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- Tuesday, December 1 | Dead Empires: How China May Overtake the U.S.
- Saturday, July 26 | Piketty’s Model of Inequality and Growth in Historical Context, Pt 2
- Saturday, July 26 | Piketty’s Model of Inequality and Growth in Historical Context, Pt 1
- Monday, March 17 | Whose Water? Ours! How to End California’s Water Crisis
- Monday, March 17 | Increasing the Minimum Wage Can Actually Create Jobs–If It’s Enforced
- Saturday, February 8 | The Affordable Care Act Will Raise Wages
- Monday, January 20 | What’s Crippling the Recovery: Lack of Investment Demand or Too-Big-to-Lend Banks?
- Tuesday, January 14 | Taxing Carbon is Like Taxing Diamonds
- Friday, August 9 | How a Progressive Tax System Made Detroit a Powerhouse (and Could Again)
- Sunday, May 19 | Grover Norquist is Right to Oppose Internet Sales Taxes
- Tuesday, April 23 | How to Fix the Great Real Estate After-Bubble
- Saturday, April 6 | Is New Technology Destroying Jobs?
- Wednesday, March 20 | The Monopolists in My Back Yard
- Saturday, March 2 | Joseph Stiglitz Is Right About Inequality, but for the Wrong Reason
- Sunday, February 17 | Raise the Minimum Wage or Cut Low-Wage Taxes?
- Tuesday, January 29 | The Prophetic Work of Barry Lynn
- Tuesday, January 15 | Is Paul Krugman’s Liquidity Trap Really an Inequality Trap?
- Friday, December 28 | The Keynesian Stimulus Spending Fallacy
- Friday, December 7 | Capturing the Multinational Dragons’ Gold
- Sunday, November 18 | Pity the Poor Child Molester
- Sunday, May 20 | How to (Really) End This Depression: a Response to Paul Krugman
- Sunday, May 6 | Don’t Take Away My Oxycodone!
- Thursday, April 19 | Pearidge, Trauma ; 99 to 1; and The Self-Made Myth
- Thursday, June 16 | What Drives the War on Drugs?
- Monday, May 30 | Can Killing Government Prevent Special Interest Capture?
- Thursday, May 12 | From Public Meat Markets to Derivatives Markets: A Lesson from Old New York
- Wednesday, February 16 | Can Cyberspace Liberate Us from Earthly Space?
- Sunday, January 23 | To End Deficits, Allow Localities to Raise Property Taxes
- Monday, January 17 | To Save Essential Public Services, Restore the Original Wealth Tax!
- Saturday, August 28 | Magic Mushrooms
- Sunday, August 22 | Income Inequality and Financial Crises, NYT, Aug 21
- Wednesday, June 16 | Animal Spirits, by Akerlof and Shiller
- Thursday, April 29 | Can Invading a Small Third-World Country Stimulate the Economy?
- Saturday, March 6 | The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- Sunday, February 7 | Deficit Hawk, Progressive Style, Part II
- Wednesday, February 3 | Deficit Hawk, Progressive Style, Part I
- Saturday, August 29 | Getting Health Care Incentives Right
- Sunday, June 7 | Collaborative Medicine
- Monday, February 16 | The Great Real Estate Bubble of the Roaring Twenties
- Thursday, January 29 | What’s the Matter with Michigan? The Rise and Collapse of an Economic Wonder
- Monday, December 29 | To Rebuild the Economy, People are the Best Investment
- Thursday, November 20 | How to Thaw Credit, Now and Forever by Mason Gaffney
- Friday, September 26 | The Kotlikoff-Mehrling Plan: Better than the Paulson Bailout
- Sunday, August 17 | The Great Crash of 2008, by Mason Gaffney
- Sunday, August 17 | The Great Crash of 2008, by Mason Gaffney
- Sunday, July 1 | The Battle of the Horns of Hattin
- Thursday, May 17 | How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman M.D.
- Sunday, April 8 | Mice
- Sunday, March 18 | Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
- Wednesday, February 21 | The Drug War Comes Home
- Friday, February 2 | Death and Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
- Tuesday, January 16 | The Minimum Wage and the IRS
- Monday, December 18 | When Affirmative Action was White, by Ira Katznelson
- Sunday, November 19 | The Plague before Thanksgiving
- Sunday, November 12 | Benefits of Military Spending
- Wednesday, October 18 | The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End, by Peter Galbraith
- Saturday, September 30 | Where Did The Wealth of Nations Come From?
- Wednesday, September 6 | School Choice: A Lesson from New Zealand
- Wednesday, August 9 | The White Man’s Burden, by William Easterly
- Sunday, July 9 | The Wedge
- Tuesday, June 6 | The Mother of All Bungles in Iraq
- Saturday, May 13 | Tax Cuts for the Rich Hurt the Economy
- Sunday, May 7 | Wealth of Nations, Wolf on Jacobs, Krugman on Warsh
- Sunday, April 30 | Bubble, CPI and CEO Bonuses
- Tuesday, April 4 | Helping People Help Themselves, by David Ellerman
- Saturday, March 25 | Is Racism Increasing?
- Sunday, March 12 | Gangsta-nomics at Harvard
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