…models of this sort by the late Richard Goodwin, who had a Marx-influenced predatory model of class struggle cyclical fluctuations. Their early models were labeled as Kynes-Wicksell-Goodwin (KWG) models. But…

…funny and so true. The state of Ohio supreme court . . . And regarding the food item’s being called a “boneless wing,” it is common sense that that label…

…The meritocracy is overwhelming the liberal project. — The Great Migration, David Brooks, New York Times, Jan. 25 Brooks is right; that is not to make a partisan point. It…

…that recognizes the inherent meritocracy of the master class. – A population that is scared or coerced into ceding their freedom to the masters in exchange for security. – The…

…are the odds that a child will be in a different economic stratum from his parents? It’s a darned good measure of “meritocracy.” Here’s the key graphic: On the vertical…

…at unsustainable levels.) That this is spot-on would make me sadder if I thought we still lived in anything resembling a meritocracy, or even a developing economy. If we needed…

…in numbers to affect his appeal. What I do resent is that under an Obama administration, money we’ve work hard to earn (through the meritocracy system we put ourselves through)…

…to climate change action to NIH and other support for basic scientific research on which rests most of the “entrepreneurial” innovations that the self-appointed meritocracy credits itself with. That requires…

…other people’s money that they manage (i.e., their compensation income, labeled carried interest). Everybody in Michigan pays a very low flat income tax, while underprivileged, unemployed and discriminated against blacks…

…satisfied, and 45 percent dissatisfied. In just a few years, we have gone from seeing our economy as a real meritocracy to viewing it as something closer to a coin…