Flathead: I think it was about five months ago that Press editor Alex Zaitchik whispered to me in the office hallway that Thomas Friedman had a new book coming out. All he knew about it was the title, ...

We are here to say that, as a matter of arithmetic, in a depressed economy like the present, if a long deep recession casts even a small shadow on future potential output, with interest rates in the ...

Rudbekia Hirta has worries about problems that turn her students off math: Learning Curves: Contest Problems: I've also been given a book produced at the University of Delaware in 1986 called ...

Paul Krugman has written a very good introduction to Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: In the spring of 2005 a panel of “conservative scholars and policy leaders” was asked to ...

Repressive Tolerance, by Herbert Marcuse (1965): [True] tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. As to the scope of this ...

Measures of Worth: Clearly, intrinsic values, objects, or events are difficult, if not impossible, to measure in money terms. There is probably no objective way of assessing the worth of freedom of ...

Even now, all the agricultural production of Russia is not peasant production. We have, in places, large scale agriculture. The Government is already running big estates with workers instead of ...

Principles: Principle 1: Social Connections Motivate. Coaxing individuals to take actions that benefit themselves…. is often extremely difficult. But getting them to take actions that involve social ...

Without God - The New York Review of Books: In his celebrated 1837 Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Harvard, titled "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted that a day would come when America ...

Barbara Clark Smith is Curator of Social History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where she has worked since 1983. Her research ranges from the material culture of household ...

It is a line that always gets a laugh: Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest": MISS PRISM: ...Cecily, you will read your Political Economy in my absence. The chapter on the Fall of the Rupee ...

George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier - Chapter 2: Even when you watch the process of coal-extraction you probably only watch it for a short time, and it is not until you begin making a few ...