Frank Knight on John Keynes
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in budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Frank Knight, Keynesian macroeconomics
Oscar Wilde on the @DemSocialists of America #DSACon19
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Down and out in America
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in politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The Great Enrichment
How Budget Airlines Work
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Phil Leotardo Wants Revenge For His Murdered Brother – The Sopranos
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The predictable consequence of unleashing do-gooders in least developed countries
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in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, do gooders, Labour standards, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
From “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html
Book Review: The Complete Maisky Diaries
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Having published The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s, 1932-1943, an abridged version of the Soviet Ambassador to London diaries, in 2015, Yale University Press has now published The Complete Maisky Diaries in three volumes. The set is edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky, emeritus professor of history at Tel Aviv University, and presents the entire original diary which is 500,000 words in length. The editor provides annotations, extensive commentary to contextualize the diaries and fill gaps in their keeping, and three biographical chapters on Ivan Maisky (“The Making of a Soviet Diplomat,” “End of an Era: Maisky’s Recall,” and “The Price of Fame: A Late Repression).
Maisky was appointed Soviet ambassador to London in 1932, despite his having a dubious background as a Menshevik and member of the anti-Bolshevik Komuch government in 1918 who only belatedly joined the Bolsheviks. His earlier associations always cast “a huge…
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