A historical collection of our writing.
Wishing everyone a belated Thanksgiving. If you have some time today or over the weekend, I recommend watching this video of VP Mike Pence talking about the administration’s approach to China Then follow it by watching this video by Hank Paulson who proposes a different approach but seem clearly […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section wraps up the section on Universal Basic Income (UBI) by addressing a few common objections and arguing that it is a moral imperative. I have already addressed the three biggest objections to UBI by showing that it […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section looks at the effects a Universal Basic Income (UBI) might have on the labor market. One of the many attractive features of a UBI is that it doesn’t do away with people’s ability to sell their labor. Suppose someone […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section provides some back of the envelope calculations to show we can afford UBI to provide economic freedom for all. So with all of this as background, your might wonder what a Universal Basic Income should pay. My […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This is an Uncertainty Wednesday post on a Thursday. By going over the Wednesdays from the last couple of years you could try to quantify the probability that I will not write an Uncertainty Wednesday post at all, or that I will write one, but a day late. You could graph this historic probability […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have not been blogging a lot, other than the occasional updated excerpt from World After Capital and a few posts in my Uncertainty Wednesday series. The reason is that I am struggling with the relevance of much of what I would have said, when contrasted with the current political and social […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
