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The Legacy of Joan Robinson

Richard Goodwin, G.L.S. Shackle, and Hyman Minsky (who always claimed he was not a a “Post Keynesian”), along with some others. So when Gerald Friedman wrote of “Joan Robinson economists,”…

Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction vs. Massive Public Infrastructure Construction: Why do the Building Trades unions want the FORMER rather than the LATTER? I have no idea. [TITLE CORRECTED, 5/18 at 10:46 a.m.]

…of billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer. Sean McGarvey, president of the AFL-CIO-affiliated North America’s Building Trades Unions, co-signed a letter with seven other union presidents urging federation President Richard Trumka…