Tag: Economics

Herbert Deyer, Jr. – The First Demand for Slave Reparations

Link to an article by Herbert Deyer, Jr.:

“The First Demand for Slave Reparations”

Bonus Link: “Statement to the Media by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the Conclusion of Its Official Visit to USA, 19-29 January 2016” (“The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent.“)

Tony Bates – Book Review: The Future of the Professions

Link to a review by Tony Bates of The Future of the Professions:  How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts (2015) by Richard and Daniel Susskind:

“Book Review: The Future of the Professions (Including Teaching)”

Bonus links: Forces of Production and “Edutopia” and Homo academicus and Making Money

Elaine Coburn – Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power

Link to an article by Elaine Coburn:

“Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power”

Bonus Links: Economists and the Powerful and The Social Structures of the Economy and “Darwin and the Body Politic: Schäffle, Veblen, and the Shift of Biological Metaphor in Economics”