The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
These posts are from the D&S Blog, which we mostly stopped posting to a few years ago. Visit our new blog Left Hook Economics (https://www.dollarsandsense.org/tag/left-hook-economics/).
(1) "Help--I'm Getting Arrested!" Droid App: Hat-tip to Julio Huato on lbo-talk: at
Find a video of Arjun Jaydev's teach in at the #OccupyBoston Free School University Facebook Group Page, here.
(1) More Teach-Ins on Friday!: Alejandro Reuss of the UMass-Amherst Labor Center and a Dollars & Sense Associate
(1) Teach-Ins Continue at #OccupyBoston: UMass-Boston economist Arjun Jayadev did a great teach-in yesterday at #OccupyBoston. His
(1) Great Press for OWSJ and #OWS: In addition to the above photo featuring my #OWS protest comrade Amy Offner
A quickie post, because I have been busy setting up an Economics Forum for #OccupyBoston. (1) Voices from #OWS: A
(1) Occupy Your City! From Brave New Media: (2) Rick Wolff on/at #OWS: From the Guardian: This protest pinpoints
(1) More pictures from my weekend in NYC Now I am able to fix the ones that are sideways! Much
Images from #OccupyWallStreet earlier today. Having difficulty blogging with my phone, hence sideways images. More text below and tomorrow. I
(Sorry--no picture today--the post is already too long, and there are two embedded videos. Even if you skim,
Brad DeLong posted these very interesting excerpts from Ron Suskind's new book Confidence Men on his blog: Maybe
Gene Sharp Biopic: This Sunday at the Boston Film Festival is the Boston premier of a biopic about Gene Sharp,