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Labor as a Common Pool Resource

…that labor is not a commodity. An early rationale for the proposition was given in 1834 by William Longson of Stockport in his evidence to the House of Commons Select…

Chayanov, Domesday and the Eight Ox Team

…consolidating control after his conquest of England in 1066 William the Conqueror commissioned the Domesday survey. In the course of this William’s commissioners accomplished something almost inconceivable for its time,…

Real Keynesians understand imbalanced trade

…analysis from a commentary by William Greider that will appear in the February 2 edition of The Nation. He wrote: While Washington debates the terms of Obama’s stimulus package, others…

What was the Nexus?

…Cheney and then in alphabetical order: Elliott Abrams Richard L. Armitage Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeffrey Bergner John Bolton Eliot Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes Aaron Friedberg…

Attacking Fitzgerald

…and Mr. Kristol up to these attacks on Mr. Fitzgerald? Update: Media Matters contrasts William Kristol now to the 1998 defense of Ken Starr by guess who – William Kristol!…