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Southern California SCS Scenarios and Modeling

https://urbanfootprint.com/case-studies/southern-california-scag/

Weighted voting, revolution and the applause in a concert hall

https://www.socialeurope.eu/weighted-voting-revolution-and-the-applause-in-a-concert-hall
The “Existential Battle” Is for Control of the Democratic Party https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-existential-battle-for-control-of.html

How to Stay Financially Stable When the World Might Be Falling Apart

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/your-money/how-financially-stable-investing.html?fallback=0&recId=1OfX2WSkj2finxbjHnQXSeN9Mbm&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=CA&recAlloc=home-desks&geoCountry=US&blockId=home-living-vi&imp_id=626137360&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/business/top-mutual-funds-performance.html?module=inline

VITAMIN D PILLS COULD SLOW PROGRESS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES, PREDIABETES, SCIENTISTS SAY

VITAMIN D PILLS COULD SLOW PROGRESS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES, PREDIABETES, SCIENTISTS SAY

Taxing the (Very) Rich Finding the Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder

https://www.epi.org/event/taxing-the-very-rich-finding-the-cure-for-excessive-wealth-disorder/

CBO report shows broad benefits from higher minimum wage

https://www.epi.org/press/cbo-report-shows-broad-benefits-from-higher-minimum-wage/

Chapter 2. Government As a Platform

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-government/9781449381936/ch02.html

The Wealth Detectives: Where the rich hide there money and tax policy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/27/more-americans-favor-raising-than-lowering-tax-rates-on-corporations-high-household-incomes/

PS Dani Rodrik and Raj Chetty on the American Dream

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/raj-chettys-american-dream/592804/ \ https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/reviving-the-left-means-reintegrating-economies-by-dani-rodrik-2019-01?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=757b93757e-contributor_newsletter_rodrik_22_7_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-757b93757e-106319903&mc_cid=757b93757e&mc_eid=4868cc572a&barrier=accesspaylog https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=757b93757e&e=4868cc572a

mistake to think of global trade tensions as mainly a Trump-Xi or even US-China problem. In a world of weak demand supported mostly by rising debt, global trade and capital flow imbalances are about allocating deficient demand

https://twitter.com/michaelxpettis/status/1153247736809918465?s=20

Middle class revolt

http://temas.folha.uol.com.br/global-inequality/europe/middle-class-revolt.shtml?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=comptw

Exploring Economics Website

https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/study/

Incentivizing an Ethical Economics

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/incentivising-ethical-economics/

Everyone Is Miserable: Here’s What We Can Do About It

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everyone-is-miserable-here-s-what-we-can-do-about-it?utm_source=pocket-newtab

About that Wealth tax

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich

State and Local Taxes Are Worsening Inequality

State and Local Taxes Are Worsening Inequality

America’s Indefensible Defense Budget

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/07/18/americas-indefensible-defense-budget/ https://twitter.com/i/status/1152948843119554561 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich

fossil fuel subsidies

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_1jXshXYAATTt_.jpg:large

Big Picture WTF and previous post

Preface: https://twitter.com/DKeithClimate/status/1152547103442460677?s=20 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N34IDU6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://qz.com/1666863/why-big-tech-keeps-outsmarting-antitrust-regulators/ https://www.amazon.com/Who-Gets-What-Why-Matchmaking/dp/0544705289

Facebook Digital Currency

https://www.c-span.org/video/?462671-1/lawmakers-question-facebook-official-proposed-digital-currency

cutting rates when we've got full employment and the Dow at 27,000

https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.businessinsider.com/inflation-is-solved-why-fed-cutting-rates-full-employment-2019-7?amp_js_v=0.1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-vs-involuntary-part-time-work-underemployment-2019-1?r=US&IR=T

The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONByvKuMa4w

Qualcomm fined $272M in latest EU antitrust fine

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/18/20678641/qualcomm-eu-antitrust-fine-icera-nvidia-3g-dongles

CBO's Cyclically adjusted Full employment budget deficit

pic.twitter.com/aEOSJHiiwW

E.P.A. Won’t Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children’s Health Problems

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/climate/epa-chlorpyrifos-pesticide-ban.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Why Are Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos So Interested in Space? or agroecology

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/why-are-billionaires-like-jeff-bezos-so-interested-in-space.html or https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/agroecology-as-innovation.html

The ‘new right’ is not a reaction to neoliberalism, but its offspring

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/the-new-right-is-not-a-reaction-to-neoliberalism-but-its-offspring/

Corruption The real stakes behind the FIFA scandal

https://glineq.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-real-stakes-behind-fifa-scandal.html?spref=tw

California Schools where kids are all the same race

https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/03/78190/the-california-schools-where-the-kids-are-all-the/

George Will Conserving the Ideas and Institutions of Freedom

https://cafehayek.com/2019/07/conserving-the-ideas-and-institutions-of-freedom.html
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/

Human Nature lab These seven moral rules unite human beings, according to research

http://humannaturelab.net/research https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/an-oxford-researcher-says-there-are-seven-moral-rules-that-unite-humanity

Trump and the Merchants of Detention Guns and Butter

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/opinion/trump-migrants-detention-centers.html?searchResultPosition=2 https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/736940431/under-siege-and-largely-secret-businesses-that-serve-immigration-detention

AOC and Michal Kalecki’s 1943 Essay on Politics and Ideology: obstacles to achieving full employment

AOC is making Monetary Policy Cool http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/aoc-is-making-monetary-policy-cool-and-political-again.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/kalecki-on-the-political-obstacles-to-achieving-full-employment.html http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2012/08/political-aspects-of-full-employment.html

Martin Wolf v. Trumponomics Whiffs Due to Fealty to Orthodoxy

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/martin-wolf-v-trumponomics-whiffs-due-to-fealty-to-orthodoxy.html

‘Completely Terrifying’: Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/completely-terrifying-study-warns-carbon-saturated-oceans-headed-toward-tipping-point-that-could-unleash-mass-extinction-event.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

The Palo Alto Consensus

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/opinion/internet-democracy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

What’s Driving Populism? Jul 9, 2019 DANI RODRIK

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/economic-and-cultural-explanations-of-right-wing-populism-by-dani-rodrik-2019-07

Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science by Jonathan Gruber, Simon Johnson with J. Stiglitz

https://www.epi.org/event/jump-starting-america-with-simon-johnson/ with josepg stiglitz   defining progressive capitalism, a learning society https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/after-neoliberalism-progressive-capitalism-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2019-05 https://www.amazon.com/Jump-Starting-America-Breakthrough-Economic-American-ebook/dp/B07G73QHY5/ref=pd_sim_351_4/144-3114048-8525736?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07G73QHY5&pd_rd_r=94061256-a0f8-11e9-ae2b-152fe49d8d51&pd_rd_w=4aBAr&pd_rd_wg=l1UFw&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=TAGNT7GA0BQ224FGY7FZ&psc=1&refRID=TAGNT7GA0BQ224FGY7FZ

There Should Be a Public Option for Everything

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/opinion/sunday/public-option.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Amazon made an $11.2bn profit in 2018 but paid no federal tax

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/15/amazon-tax-bill-2018-no-taxes-despite-billions-profit

What Just Happened Also Occurred Before The Last 7 U.S. Recessions. Reason To Worry?

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/737476633/what-just-happened-also-occurred-before-the-last-7-u-s-recessions-reason-to-worr?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Guns and Butter Blog pod

http://www.gunsandbutter.org/

Economic geography strikes back. After a couple of decades of easy talk about the ‘death of distance’

https://voxeu.org/article/economic-geography-sovereignist-europe

Matt Kahn Imagine on zoning and housing

http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/2019/05/imagine.html

Are we heading back toward the Abyss

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/one-hundred-years-after-world-war-i-are-we-heading-back-to-the-abyss.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

Capital Public Radio News from Sacramento

http://www.capradio.org/

maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/after-over-three-decades-rebel-economist-breaks-through-to-washington-heres-how-he-did-it

Tax Cast: How to fix the global tax system

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/06/taxcast-the-corporate-tax-haven-index-solving-the-worlds-broken-tax-system.html