…could be a crook and taxpayers deserve to know! It started with Richard M. Nixon, and Congress’s July 1969 decision to eliminate what seemed like a gigantic tax-avoidance loophole that…

…was increasingly understood that the so-called laws of supply and demand operated quite differently with regard to the peculiar commodity of labor power (Richard Ely, 1886): While those who sell…

…business elites all along. Additional sources: J. Lee Annis, “Big Jim” Eastland: The Godfather of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi, 2016. Sarah Brown, “The Role of Elite Leadership in the…

A Leading Intellectual according to Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and founder of the Alt-Right, Richard Spencer “We won . . . .” I am playing the entire newscast rather…

…Secretaries of State was not even Paul Samuelson’s policy-animated zombie lump-of-labour fallacy but a supply-side, anti-inflationary retrofit cobbled together by Richard Layard and associates and touted by Tony Blair and…

…and worker welfare. Cecil Pigou, Philip Sargant Florence, Lionel Robbins, John Hicks and Edward Denison treated the output optimum as the economic ideal. Richard Lester and Lloyd Reynolds, authors of…

Richard Layard, How to Beat Unemployment, 1986: “If you ask the man in the street (not Wall Street) what has caused our unemployment, nine times out of ten he will…

A thought for Sunday: Trump voters and the “peasant mentality” I am currently reading a comprehensive tome on 19th century European history, “The Pursuit of Power,” by Richard J. Evans….

…the minimum wage. Peter Dorman explains Why you should never use a supply and demand diagram for labor markets. Richard Wolff notes he thinks the debate is a distraction Beyond…

…bow to [conservatism]…. Both of the men who served as Jerry Ford’s White House chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney, said they had become more conservative in their…