vy · @vy
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just finished @delong "Slouching". It's an interesting book and particularly illuminating on the Carter/Reagan era. The Carter teams elevation of Paul Volker without even an interview and certainly no idea of what they wanted is appalling. Their economic ineptitude is even more galling when one realizes that was still alive and well and they apparently never even spoke to him. Gailbraith's analysis of inflation is still pertinent and useful.

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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In other words, the Venture Predator constructs a pile of shit so large and impressive that investors are convinced that there must be a pony under there somewhere.

There's another name for this kind of arrangement: a , which described as "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it."

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#bezzle #galbraith

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Vanni Di Ponzano · @bici
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politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable - John Kenneth

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Mediapart · @Mediapart
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[] John Kenneth Galbraith, une pensée toujours neuve

Dans un texte très fouillé, l’historien de l’ Alexandre Chirat revient sur la pensée d’un des économistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre, John Kenneth . Une pensée qui fait écho à de nombreux débats contemporains.

mediapart.fr/journal/economie/

#entretien #économie #galbraith

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Mediapart · @Mediapart
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[] John Kenneth Galbraith, une pensée toujours neuve

Dans un texte très fouillé, l’historien de l’ Alexandre Chirat revient sur la pensée d’un des économistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre, John Kenneth . Une pensée qui fait écho à de nombreux débats contemporains.

mediapart.fr/journal/economie/

#entretien #économie #galbraith

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Parliamo di news! · @parliamodinews
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