Moishe Postone may have given us the most sophisticated philosophy of history (he would modestly insist on “critical theory”) for our era in his masterpiece Time, Labor, and Social Domination. He manages to re-conceptualize the strangely symbiotic histories of capitalism and socialism through a close and critical rereading of Marx’s Grundrisse and Capital. He uses …
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Thomas Piketty’s Capital is important to several policy conversations we will have on this blog. In order to give other readers a basic grounding in his work, I have tried to summarize the main points of Piketty's Capital. In a second blog, "The Problem with Piketty" I provide a review and critique of this work: …
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Let's take a break from the Olympian perspective on policy with a left technocrat take on the developing scrum of Democratic presidential politics! David Leonhardt in this Sunday's New York Times does an excellent job on the policy side of that struggle with a highly perceptive article on Elizabeth Warren's agenda. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/sunday/elizabeth-warren-president-2020.html He starts with …
Our fearless (or fearful) forum moderator asked me to move the discussion of my previous blog post toward the realm of concrete policy and our current political situation. Rightly requested, but a slower process to respond to. Here is a start. First, my diagnosis of the problem of our economic regime was intended to address …
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