Monday, February 15, 2021

The Search for Autonomy: Gavin Mueller's "Breaking Things at Work"

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  Okay today we're looking at Breaking Things at Work, the new book from Verso by Gavin Muller. It’s an interesting text because it'...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

On "The Care Crisis" by Emma Dowling

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Today I'm going to talk about the Care Crisis by Emma Dowling. It is a new release from Verso and the subtitle “is what caused it and ho...
Friday, February 5, 2021

Lawrence Summers Can Eat My Ass

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 I have a lot of feelings about the man, mostly negative. He's out of touch and in spite of everyone who says he's brilliant, he...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Pushing Back on Neoliberalism: Mike Konczal's "Freedom From the Market"

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  This is a good, short book laying out many of the ways that the market has crept up on us and made our lives smaller. Konczal provides nec...
Monday, July 27, 2020

It Was Supposed to Go a Bit Differently: Fall 2020 Economics Doctoral Admissions.

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On my desk at work, I have had a note that says something like “write up the admissions process, post statements of purpose” for months. Of ...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

A Very Necessary Book: Kelton's "The Deficit Myth"

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Back after the 2008 crisis, I had lost my job and was sitting around unemployed and I started to get interested in economics for the first t...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

When everyone sees what is on the end of every fork: Oesterich's "Pandemic Capitalism"

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The pandemic that we got going on around here has gotten me thinking of two separate but related things. The first is from the novel / lit...