The Just Third Way

In yesterday’s posting, we decided (that is, I decided, and you presumably went along with it if you’re still reading this blog) that we c...

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In yesterday’s posting we got some advice from “Screwtape,” given in letters to his nephew, Wormwood, an Assistant Tormentor.   Above all, ...

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We think we’ve figured out why the Just Third Way hasn’t (yet) captured the popular imagination to any great extent.   The Onio...

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--> Recently we posted our reasons why we chose not to review John Mueller’s book, Redeeming Economics (2010).   In retrospect, ...

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Short answer?   You don’t.   Neither do I.   The fact is that the money you and your employer pay into Social Security ...

All the world (or, at least, that portion of it getting its news from the latest item to go viral) is talking about Man...

It’s probably appropriate that this short series on the mysterious death of reason started off with a brief discussion of a mystery ...

A short time ago we reread Josephine Tey’s last novel, The Daughter of Time (1950), about Richard III and the Princes in the Tower....

The United States was in serious trouble in the early 20 th century.   The land frontier was effectively closed, and it had not been replac...

One of the more burning issues of the presidential campaign of 1912 was the need for fundamental monetary and fiscal reform.   The Panic o...

Not to worry.   Scientists have let us know that the asteroid Apophis (which sounds suspiciously like the name of the ...

In Keynesian economics there is a presumed necessary trade-off between employment and inflation. The theory is that if you want full employ...

Last week someone commented on one of our postings asking for a review of John Mueller's book, Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Mi...

All the brouhaha over the "fiscal cliff" has obscured the only real solution that exists — understanding what is really happening...

Last year (we thought we'd better start work right away getting used to it), on December 27, 2012, George F. Will wrote a column in th...

Although this has been a short (work) week, there have been a number of significant events. The Democrats and Republicans appear to have re...