Nasa Scientist: Cap & Trade Not Sufficient
From The Guardian. N.B: Hansen lambasts the current international approach of setting targets to be met through "cap
Trade: Throwing Oil on the Fire
From The International Herald Tribune. Particularly noteworthy (i.e. scary): "China will resort to tariff and trade policies to
Treasury To Aid Array of Firms, Industries
From Bloomberg (hat tip to Yves Smith) Treasury Opens Door to Aid for Broad Array of Firms, Industries By Rebecca
The Good News and the Bad News
Employment at the tippy-top is looking good for Black people in the United States, as Barack Obama ascends to
ASSA and Jet Blue
Things may be relatively quiet on the D&S blog for the first week of 2009, as our busiest
Contours of Crisis
We just posted a great web-only article by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan, co-authors of Capital as Power:
3M CEO on Plant Closings
This is via Doug Henwood at lbo-talk, posted under the heading "Capitalist Thought." He says he doesn&
Left Economics Education Gets a Nod
Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was in the news (and under arrest) last week after he disrupted a Bureau of Land
Economics of Immigrant Detention in R.I.
This is a pretty horrifying piece from Saturday's Times--excellent reporting. We covered the Rhode Island ICE raids
WaMu Reckoning
This is from a series from the New York Times called "The Reckoning" exploring the causes of the
Rebuild the Economy: Invest in People
The New York Times published my letter below December 26, 2008. Meanwhile, Mother Jones has just published (not yet online)