Link to an article by Stclair:
Tag: Economics
Ahmed Shawki – The Legacy of Malcolm X
Link to an article by Ahmed Shawki:
Bonus link: “To the Memory of Malcolm X: Fifty Years After His Assassination”
Margaret Garb – How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare
Link to an article and book review by Margaret Garb:
“How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare”
Demos – Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap
Link to a report by Demos:
“The Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap”
Selected quote: “This paper explores a number of these popular explanations for the racial wealth gap, looking at individual differences in education, family structure, full- or part-time employment, and consumption habits. In each case, we find that individual choices are not sufficient to erase a century of accumulated wealth: structural racism trumps personal responsibility.”
Bonus link: “From the Cold War to Clinton: How Liberals and Conservatives Have Separated Race From Class”
Simon Davis-Cohen – Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention
Link to an article by Simon Davis-Cohen:
“Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention”
Vincent Emanuele – A Conversation with David Harvey
Link to an interview of David Harvey conducted by Vincent Emanuele:
“Rebel Cities, Urban Resistance and Capitalism: A Conversation with David Harvey”
Harvey is best in these sort of interview settings. It is great that the conversation touches on questions of culture and symbols — though there is not much depth here beyond simply raising those issues. It is worth noting that Pierre Bourdieu and others have offered substantial analytic tools to bolster theory in that area.
George Wuerthner – How to Read Peer-Reviewed Science
Link to an article by George Wuerthner:
“Follow the Money: How to Read Peer-Reviewed Science”
Bonus links: “The Peer Review Hypocrisy” and “Peer Review as Censorship” and “Offline: The Crisis in Scientific Publishing”
Martha Rosenberg – They Aren’t All Safe
Link to an article by Martha Rosenberg:
“They Aren’t All Safe: Pharma is Willing to Look ‘Unscientific’ to Sell Vaccines”
Bonus links: “The Vaccination Quandary” (Note: he’s actually referring to Sherri Tenpenny, not Shirley Tenpenny.) and “FDA Commissioner Hamburg Appointed WHO Deputy?: A Sad Legacy” and “Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” and “Public Interest Group Calls for Investigation Into Harassment of USDA Scientists” and “Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-Perceptions of Researchers and Practitioners”
Michael Hudson – The Land Belongs to God
Link to an interview with Michael Hudson (and others):
This interview summarizes some of Hudson’s most important work. And yet, it also highlights a blind spot in it: his claim that others’ interpretations of ancient history are colored by ideology, as if his is not also. Instead, philosophy teaches, “In an event, things not only change, what changes is the very parameter by which we measure the facts of change, i.e., a turning point changes the entire field within which facts appear.” Hudson is fighting an ideological war — for the good side, mind you — but tries to portray himself as one of the select few pursuing “objective” scientific economic/historical research rather than another partisan. Robespierre would have categorized that as treasonous. Hudson should be more of a Leninist and just accept that he pursues power.
Bonus link: “He Died For Our Debt, Not Our Sins”
Gustavus Myers – History of the Great American Fortunes & Supreme Court
Links to books by Gustavus Myers:
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. II
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. III
History of the Supreme Court of the United States
Meyers wrote some confounding things, but he also performed a valuable service by looking critically at things like methods of wealth accumulation, which have tended toward fraud and insider dealing (for instance, the History of the Great American Fortunes “gives the details of [the Yazoo land scandal] and other frauds that have shaped American history. The moral is that great gifts to insiders have effects that will last centuries.”)