“As Milanovic dismissively concludes, neoclassical models of distribution related ‘to life on Earth about as much as the theories that astrobiologists have developed about life on Mars.’” Simon Torracinta reviews Branko Milanovic’s “Visions of Inequality” www.dissentmagazine.org/article/ineq...

has the Netanyahu government timed its escalation-to-deescalate with Hezbollah in order to deliver an October surprise that might benefit Trump?

“focus on communities, not individuals, as the unit of change.” ~Raj Chetty www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/o...

i was more proud of the United States back when we had already won the Civil War.

“But as Keynesian economists have long understood, the most important factor in trade flows is changes in incomes, not prices. Far from being fixed, demand is the most dynamic element in the system.” @jwmason.bsky.social jwmason.org/slackwire/at... ht @mjhaugen.bsky.social @sevier.io

do the people of missouri just not gaf?

famous people love having selfies with famous people so for a whole menagerie of famous people there’s a photograph with whatever famous sociopath is pathing the socios today. it was just a snapshot, they say. we barely met.

our supreme court are just horrible people.

you see, it’s not that they want to execute a man who may well be entirely innocent. it’s about states’ rights.

The man singlehandedly reviving the classical liberal arts in America.

Julius Caesar was done with politics.

it's not, in fact, unusual for a thing to be in ones own self interest despite being contrary to the greater good. for people trained in the anglo-american economic tradition, this can be surprising. these "market failures" are what's supposed to be unusual, weird, "advanced" in a curricular sense.

Lina Khan on “60 Minutes Overtime” on noncompetes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxl4...

"Republican primary voters have moved from voting for Trump in spite of his transgressions to rejecting anyone who doesn’t transgress. If you’re not transgressive, you’re suspicious. Decency is countercultural in the Republican Party. It’s seen as a rebuke of Trump." www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/o...

the remarkable Lina Khan on 60 Minutes. via Zephyr Teachout www.cbsnews.com/news/ftc-cha...

it’s not a deep fake. it’s a deep fake of a deep fake.

“we’ve taken on a model of argument in which data, regressions and modelling…are the standard of proof. And because of this, we’ve closed off all possible explanations…except those for which usable datasets can be found.” @dsquareddigest.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...

"I swear that all my lying was the bravest form of truth" Rose Polenzani voicing the character of a trans man deceiving his lover captures J.D. Vance's ethos beautifully. genius.com/Rose-polenza...

I mean, he's not the first politician to try to flatter his audience. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

can’t wait until elon gets excited about personalization and rebrands to my-x.com