Food Deserts from 99% Invisible
a great introduction to the monopolization of the US economy A key phenomenon of the past fifty years has been the explosion in the monopoly […]
Economy
Anonymity, AI, and the Internet
Maintaining social discipline Over our species’ history, we have lived in small groups for roughly 290,000 years, with only the last 10,000 years in mass-scale […]
Income Inequality in the US
a fifty year view During the work for my forthcoming book, The Silent Theft: the $79 trillion heist that rewrote the American economic deal, I […]
Wealth Inequality in the US
a fifty-year view. One of the central perspectives of my forthcoming book The Silent Theft: the $79 trillion heist that rewrote the American economic deal […]
External Costs, Global Warming, Forever Plastics, and Orthodox Economics
Thoughts after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s “Time to Wake Up 298: The 10th Our Oceans Conference” No sooner had I finished my earlier post, “‘Outdated and […]
A Plugged Up Kitchen Sink and Insecurity in American Life
A tale of almost $400 Our kitchen sink stopped draining the other day. My amateur snaking did nothing. Today, a plumber arrived with a […]
David Brooks misses the long view
“Can We Please Stop Lying About Obama?” The indefatigable conservative columnist for the NY Times, David Brooks, has authored a strange and flawed essay, “Can […]
A “Decent” Federal Budget?
Paul Krugman, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like” Paul Krugman’s recent post, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like – Imagining a Congress that […]
Price Gouging and Research Costs in the Pharmaceutical Industry ERALD KOLASI
https://technodynamics.substack.com/p/price-gouging-and-research-costs Excellent piece. See this iconic examination: Lazonick, William, Matt Hopkins, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Mustafa Sakinc, and Oner Tulum. “US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model.” Institute […]
More Fire Engines and Monopolies
a follow up to my 2.24.2025 post on this topic Reuters is reporting that the International Association of Fire Fighters is asking the Dept. of […]