The AI Safety War in My Back Yard
In the contest between Micah Lasher and “AI guy” Alex Bores, is Bores a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
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Richard Vague on Credit Expansion and Land Speculation
Frequent D&S author Polly Cleveland interviewed Richard Vague last week (more info here and here); here is the
Review of Matthew Desmond's Evicted
By Polly Cleveland Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City gives us a dramatic closeup of
Review of Strong Towns
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperityby Charles L. Marohn, Jr Review by Polly Cleveland Along with the
The Big Bean Bubble
By Polly Cleveland In my last post, I wrote how, in A Brief History of Doom, Richard Vague shows how
Review: A Brief History of Doom
By Polly Cleveland Review of A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises, by Richard Vague A
Garlic, Cancer, and the Public Funding of Scientific Research
By Polly Cleveland Four years ago, in The Mouse That Wouldn’t Die, I described how my husband’s colleague
How the U.S. Military Protects and Enriches Multinational Speculators
By Polly Cleveland At a 1972 economics conference, at the height of the Vietnam war, Mason Gaffney presented an invited
From Germany to America: A Dialog on Inequality
By Polly Cleveland At a coffee break between sessions at the annual History of Economics Society meeting, I chatted with
How Colonies Can Liberate Themselves by Taxing Real Estate
By Polly Cleveland Greece, Haiti, and Puerto Rico have something important in common: they are colonies. Puerto Rico started out
The Democrats Confront Monopoly
By Polly Cleveland In the 1970’s when I studied microeconomics in grad school, we got to monopoly briefly in
Beauty and Profit
By Polly Cleveland Beauty and Profit: The Evolution of Beauty (2017) by Richard O. Prum In 1860 Charles Darwin wrote
The Dissing of Henry George
By Polly Cleveland My father, born in 1910, told me that when he was young every educated person read Progress