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Not Enough Women in China? Let Men Share a Wife, an Economist Suggests Polyandry has been practiced before in China, particularly in impoverished areas, as a way to pool resources and avoid the breakup of property. Yet much of the online response to Mr. Xie’s proposal has been outrage. “Is this a human being speaking?”…
Why the Phrase ‘Late Capitalism’ Is Suddenly Everywhere A job advertisement celebrating sleep deprivation? That’s late capitalism. Free-wheeling Coachella outfits that somehow all look the same and cost thousands of dollars? Also late capitalism. Same goes for this wifi-connected $400 juicer that does no better than human hands, Pepsi’s advertisement featuring Kendall Jenner, United Airlines’…
Interview: Paul Krugman’s Plan to Fix the Economy Call it “stimulus” if you like. Call it Keynesian economics, after the great economic thinker (and Krugman idol) John Maynard Keynes, who first championed the idea that government has an essential role in saving the free market from its own excesses. Whatever you call it, it worked…
Taiwan Is Using A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme From China To Grow Its Slow Economy Ralph Jennings is such a moron–what he means by ’get rich quick scheme’ is actually public investment in infrastructure. A proven method to spur economic growth since the Great Depression.
False consciousness Mr Stedman Jones is even critical of parts of “Capital”. In one passage, Marx set out to answer a puzzle. Changing levels of supply and demand explain why the price of a commodity goes up or down, but does not explain why the equilibrium price of that commodity is what it is. For…