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Links – 06/29/2017

  • Posted on June 29, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Sean Trende wrote a very good piece about the lessons we should draw from Ossoff’s failure in Georgia. (As I noted before, Trende is one of the most interesting political commentators in the US. In fact, if you should read…

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Links – 06/11/2017

  • Posted on June 11, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Nicholas Wades of the New York Times discusses research about the Y chromosome which suggests that some of the differences between males and females could originate from the role played by regulative genes on the X and Y chromosomes. The Boston Review…

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More on Sanandaji’s book about social-democracy in Scandinavia

  • Posted on March 4, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

If you’re interested in economic policy, Matt and I have been talking about Sanandaji’s book more, so perhaps you will find our discussion interesting. It started in the comments of my post about the book, but continued in the comments of this…

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Just a quick note

  • Posted on February 28, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I don’t have time to post anything new on the blog right now, but in case you’re interested, I got some interesting pushback from Earthly Knight and Matt in the comments of my post about Nima Sanandaji’s book the other…

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Scandinavian Unexceptionalism by Nima Sanandaji

  • Posted on February 26, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

It’s very common for progressives, especially in the US, to extoll the alleged virtues of left-wing socio-economic policies by presenting Scandinavian social democracies as models to emulate. But the argument based on the success of these countries is flawed for…

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Understanding Marx by Robert Paul Wolff

  • Posted on February 11, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Robert Paul Wolff’s book is a critical introduction to Marx’s economic theory from someone who is sympathetic to his views about the exploitative nature of capitalism. He spends a lot of time on the theory of value, which is the main theme…

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Slavery and capitalism

  • Posted on January 23, 2017September 21, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I recently decided to explore the literature about the relationship between slavery and capitalism. I did so after reading this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, although I had planned to do this for a while. After reading Seymour Drescher’s history…

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Links – 01/23/2017

  • Posted on January 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The Obama administration spent billions of dollars to overhaul the nation’s worst schools and, according to a study produced by the federal government, it didn’t produce any significant results. As the author of the article notes, this will no doubt help DeVos…

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Oxfam is at it again

  • Posted on January 22, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

It’s that time of the year, when Oxfam releases the same report it releases every year and the New York Times, the Guardian and the other usual suspects publish the same misleading headlines about it. The problem is that, as many…

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