Thursday, July 1, 2021

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RIP Steve Horwitz

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 06:56 AM PDT

RIP Steve Horwitz Steven G. Horwitz died the day before yesterday of lymphoma at age 57.  Probably most reading this do not know who he was, but he was somebody I knew quite well, even as I disagreed with him quite a lot about economics. He was arguably the leading monetary economist out of the […]

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“Being Woke or Something Else?”

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 04:29 AM PDT

General Milley during the hearing: "I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country from which we are here to defend?” "I personally find it offensive we are accusing the United States military, our […]

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Covid Pandemic Causes the Biggest Drop in U.S. Life Expectancy

Posted: 30 Jun 2021 08:30 AM PDT

Black and Brown Americans suffer the most in biggest U.S. drop in life expectancy since WWII, Modern Healthcare, June 2021 In an earlier post listing a series of articles I thought might be interesting to AB, this one Modern Healthcare article was listed as one of interest. I decided to expand on the article and […]

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Classical liberalism and the politics of white grievance

Posted: 30 Jun 2021 07:19 AM PDT

It is an unfortunate fact that many think tanks funded by conservative plutocrats and nominally devoted to spreading free-market ideas actively foster the politics of white grievance.  I believe the evidence for this claim is quite strong, but it is not always immediately obvious that this is happening.  Classical liberals and libertarians generally do not […]

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House prices continue to surge, with affordability near its worst since the Great Recession

Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:53 AM PDT

House prices continue to surge, with affordability near its worst since the Great Recession   The FHFA and Case Shiller house price indexes for May and April, respectively, were released this morning. Because housing affordability is very much an issue, let's take a look. YoY the FHFA index is up 15.7%, and the Case Shiller […]

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Socially Necessary Labour Time: outline of a review

Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:46 AM PDT

Socially Necessary Labour Time: outline of a review I have excerpted all the passages in Capital and Theories of Surplus Value in which Marx explicitly discusses the concept of socially necessary labour time by name and will go through them in manageable chunks. My first pass through the excerpts suggests to me that 13 segments would be a reasonable […]

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