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Poverty in Las Terrenas

These six photos reflect the poverty that afflicts the Dominican Republic, even in the relatively prosperous tourist town of Las Terrenas.

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Thoreau: Emerson’s Eulogy

When Thoreau died in 1862, Emerson was a national figure, the Great American Philosopher. Thoreau was a minor, local personality. Emerson’s funeral oration … give[s] his views, positive and negative, of this one-time disciple who has now eclipsed him in stature.
From Appreciation, An Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In Bed with Wall Street

In Bed with Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy, the book by Larry Doyle,  a former mortgage-backed securities trader, is receiving a strong, early reception. In its first week, each of four Amazon.com reviewers gave it five stars and posted glowing reviews.

On Jan 7, 2014, C-SPAN presented a compelling, accessible 40-minute Book Discussion with Doyle.  Watch and weep. I did.

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The Trouble With Full Employment

By  Philip Harvey
Presentation at Conference on An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century
Columbia University, Oct. 18, 2013

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Bubbles, the Multiverse, and Humility

A quote.

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Ronald Dworkin on Law, Morality, and Economics

The New York Review of Books continues to be my favorite magazine. It’s the only one I read regularly. Their 50th anniversary issue  was particularly rewarding. In that issue, they published “several essays on or by writers and artists whose work meant something to us when we started.” One of these essays was “Law from the Inside Out” by Ronald Dworkin, in which he reflected on the development of his thinking from the very concrete to the abstract. This progression led him to integrate “concrete legal issues, questions of personal ethics and morality, broad political issues of social policy, and the most abstract, rarefied philosophical and metaphysical puzzles.” His conclusion was that these issues are interconnected and cannot be separated.