davidharvey.org - 2/14/2009
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Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the likelihood of more frequent and more violent crises of ...
blogs.wsj.com - 2/19/2009
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Is there anything more heartless than foreclosing on
a home and throwing a family out on the...
street? How about taxing the family next door into penury to pay for the reckless borrowing of its neighbors? meanstreet Welcome to the Obama Homeowner ...
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Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Mean Street: Why Obama's ...
businesspundit.com - 2/12/2009
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StimulusWatch is a new wiki that uses online
feedback to hold the government accountable for its elephantine...
stimulus package. From the website : StimulusWatch.org was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to ...
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Stimulus Watch: Web Watchdog for the Stimulus Package
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naked capitalism —
... Why the U.S. Stimulus Package is Bound To Fail David Harvey (hat tip reader Anthony). Explains why, even if you are a die-hard Keynesian, the US will prove unable to mount an effective stimulus program. ...
Department of "Huh?": In Praise of Neoclassical Economics Department
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey: Why the U.S. Stimulus Package is Bound To Fail: A Financial Katrina - Remarks on the Crisis: Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the likelihood of more frequent and more violent crises of the sort that have been occurring since 1980 or so will almost certainly increase. The manner, form, spatiality and time of these surface disruptions ...
David Harvey vs. Brad DeLong Dustup!
EconoSpeak —
... David Harvey argues that the stimulus package is bound to fail. On the one hand, the current package is not big enough and on the other hand, the US can't finance a big enough stimulus package because of its recent debt history. Brad DeLong calls Harvey's argument ...
Brad DeLong on Karl Marx the Economist, the Activist, and the Moralist-Prophet
Division of Labour —
Building on yesterday's post, the complete set of DeLong's commentaries on Marx is below. DeLong has gotten into a bit of an argument with CUNY anthropologist David Harvey about the stimulus. Here's Harvey's first offering , ...
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