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- Larry Fink on the rising dollar
- On corporate power
- Discretionary spending under Democratic and Republican Administrations, Reagan-Obama
- The Keller-Greenwald debate
- Obama should not lend his name to any entitlement cuts
- Two more links on section 1002 of the “default prevention act of 2013”
- The “Default Prevention Act of 2013” makes a February debt-ceiling crisis unlikely
- Debt-ceiling deal appears imminent
- Three days till debt-ceiling breach
- Four days till debt-ceiling breach
- A discussion on in-depth interviews. What are they good for?
- Cautiously disagreeing with Yochai Benkler on NSA data collection
- The business elite is letting GOP put domestic economic sabotage on the negotiating table
- The budget is the actual issue at stake
- GOP lacks intellectual capital
- We now better account for intellectual property and intangible assets
- What is at stake and why GOP is irresponsible to put debt-default on the table
- Ryan Lizza details the GOP “suicide caucus”
- On the political sociology of Samuel Huntington
- COLUMN: debt-default politics must end
- COLUMN: The GOP domestic vision
- COLUMN: US averts war, Russia gives up an ally
- Why analysis of an act must include an analysis from the point of view of the actor
- Preparing an intellectual property report
- Ethnographic, sociology-of-knowledge evidence of economic optimism
- NSA scandal is about property, not privacy (part two)
- NSA scandal is about property, not privacy
- Economic optimism mounts: Krugman, Klein, and Harding
- Why changes to intellectual property valuation matter
- More intellectual property wealth will soon be accounted for
- sociology destroyed the notion of a market
- The economics of intellectual property: the problem of valuation
- COLUMN: Obama refashions War on Terror
- the problem of middle-class spending power: a few comments
- COLUMN: Tornadoes devastate Oklahoma
- calls for impeachment and war pick up
- Politics, data, capital
- Bartlett on fiscal stimulus when faced with a “liquidity trap”
- COLUMN: fiscal contraction amid monetary expansion
- In defense of Sherkat?
- A second post on Reinhart-Rogoff
- Sherkat and the Regnerus study
- Reinhart-Rogoff: a structure of knowledge goes down
- A second post on the comments around Biernacki’s Reinventing Evidence
- analyzing symbolic data: a sociology web debate
- qualitative sociology as economically valuable
- advanced capitalism and the methodological imperative of symbolic data
- Wednesday at the Financial Times Op-ed page
- better social design: the future of sociology publishing is open-access and on the internet
- Contemporary social theory updates Parsons’ AGIL model
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Category Archives: debt
The “Default Prevention Act of 2013” makes a February debt-ceiling crisis unlikely
On one hand, the deal signed by Obama provides debt-ceiling relief only till February, when the debt ceiling will once again be reached. On the other hand, come February, it is unlikely the United States will manufacture another homemade debt … Continue reading
Debt-ceiling deal appears imminent
Jonathan Chait is exhorting us to “stop fretting: the debt-ceiling crisis is over!” And indeed, it appears Speaker Boehner is finally willing to bring a vote to the House floor, even if it is the Senate bill, and even if … Continue reading
The business elite is letting GOP put domestic economic sabotage on the negotiating table
There is a piece of knowledge emerging in which the Republicans are no longer the party of Big Business. Statements of this knowledge can be found in BusinessWeek, National Review, and the Washington Examiner. It is based on the view that the … Continue reading
COLUMN: debt-default politics must end
As the previous decade was coming to a turbulent close, James Fallows, the veteran journalist, penned a trio of important articles. The first, “The $1.4 Trillion Question,” published in January 2008, was among the first to look at the rising … Continue reading
the problem of middle-class spending power: a few comments
The last five years we have witnessed a historic de-leveraging in the private sector. This process was part of a large economic contraction overall. The collective response was (a) creative and explosive monetary expansion combined with (b) politicized fiscal standoff. … Continue reading
Bartlett on fiscal stimulus when faced with a “liquidity trap”
Bruce Bartlett has a post at the New York Times’ “Economix” blog titled “Keynes’ Biggest Mistake” (link). In it Bartlett asks, “Does Keynesian economics completely ignore the long run?” His answer: No, but the title of Keynes’ famous book — … Continue reading
COLUMN: fiscal contraction amid monetary expansion
Is the US economy miraculously growing, despite significant fiscal contraction? Or is the US economic recovery remarkably flat, given the multi-year run of historically unprecedented monetary expansion? Can the answer be both? Neither? In a post at The Atlantic, Derek … Continue reading
A second post on Reinhart-Rogoff
In advanced societies, social structure is largely experienced as a barrage of symbols. Maintenance is only as solid as the representative text and images. Recently, an important symbol went down. The Reinhart-Rogoff paper “Growth in a Time of Debt” used … Continue reading
Reinhart-Rogoff: a structure of knowledge goes down
An important structure of knowledge went down last week. The Reinhart-Rogoff paper “Growth in a Time of Debt,” which claimed to show that real GDP growth is weak when government debt hits a “threshold” of 90% of GDP, was taken down … Continue reading
Senator Lindsey Graham to House Republicans: save fight for debt-ceiling negotiations
From Politico (link): Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday urged House Republicans to “save their powder” for the debt ceiling fight in a few months, instead of getting blamed for holding out on the Senate-backed fiscal cliff deal and then “fold … Continue reading
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