“Cheating is especially easy to justify when you frame situations to cast yourself as a victim of some kind of unfairness,” said Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied the use of prescription drugs to improve intellectual performance. “Then it becomes a matter of evening the score; you’re not… Continue reading The Psychology of Cheating
The Power of Mockery
Otpor’s strategy mirrors one promoted by a rumpled Boston academic named Gene Sharp, who is little known in America but inspires tremors among dictators abroad. Sharp’s guide to toppling despots has been translated into 34 languages so far and was widely circulated in Egypt last year in Arabic. After Otpor toppled Milosevic, it began to… Continue reading The Power of Mockery
Productivity Only Causes Persistent Unemployment If Policymakers Fail To Provide Adequate Demand
the point is that when you take the long view it’s not as if steadily increasing productivity leads to steadily declining employment—what it leads to is higher average output and rising living standards. But it only accomplishes that if the policymakers charged with macroeconomic stabilization use fiscal and monetary policy to ensure that there’s a… Continue reading Productivity Only Causes Persistent Unemployment If Policymakers Fail To Provide Adequate Demand
Spitzer to Holder: Prosecute Goldman Sachs or Resign
SPITZER: Senator, I’m going to take a leap. I’m going to say it out loud. Very directly. Goldman Sachs, you lied to the public. You lied to your clients. You’ve got a problem. You come on the show. Sue me. I don’t care. You lied to the public, you should be prosecuted. I’m going to… Continue reading Spitzer to Holder: Prosecute Goldman Sachs or Resign
Let’s Not Be Civil
Whenever there’s something the G.O.P. doesn’t like — say, environmental protection — Heritage can be counted on to produce a report, based on no economic model anyone else recognizes, claiming that this policy would cause huge job losses. Correspondingly, whenever there’s something Republicans want, like tax cuts for the wealthy or for corporations, Heritage can… Continue reading Let’s Not Be Civil
Paul Ryan Refuses To Answer Obama’s Open Mic Critiques. Why Did He Vote For Two Unfunded Wars And Unfunded Bush Tax Cuts?
Ikea’s Third World outsourcing adventure — in the U.S. – How the World Works – Salon.com
Ikea seems to be treating its American workers at a furniture plant in Danville, Virginia a good deal worse than it does its Swedish workers back at home. The workers are trying to unionize; in response Ikea has hired the famous union-busting-specializing law firm Jackson-Lewis. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary for American labor relations… Continue reading Ikea’s Third World outsourcing adventure — in the U.S. – How the World Works – Salon.com
Financial Crisis With Few Prosecutions
It is a question asked repeatedly across America: why, in the aftermath of a financial mess that generated hundreds of billions in losses, have no high-profile participants in the disaster been prosecuted? Answering such a question — the equivalent of determining why a dog did not bark — is anything but simple. But a private… Continue reading Financial Crisis With Few Prosecutions
Center on Budget Top 10 Federal Tax Charts worth a thousand words.
From Center on Budget Top 10 Federal Tax Charts worth a thousand words. – @pourmecoffee
How Socialists built America
“the unique thing about our present situation is that we have suffered the fools so thoroughly that a good many Americans—not just Tea Partisans or Limbaugh Dittoheads but citizens of the great middle—actually take Sarah Palin seriously when she rants that socialism, in the form of building codes, is antithetical to Americanism.”