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Wait, You Paid How Much for a Gallon of Mountain Lion Urine?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/business/liquids-by-the-gallon.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

Blueprint by Robert Plomin review – how DNA dictates who we are

http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/polygenic-scores/

Corona-Crash Sparks Fastest 'Correction' In History On Record-Breaking Volume

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/corona-crash-sparks-worst-month-stocks-financial-crisis-fastest-correction-history

The Democratic Establishment is Freaking Out About Bernie. It should Calm Down.

https://robertreich.org/post/611158499348627456

Voices on the Economy New Book Political Economy

http://voicesontheeconomy.org/

Productivity-Pay gap from EPI

https://economicsfromthetopdown.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the-productivity-pay-gap/

Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (full film) | FRONTLINE 571,628 views•Feb 18, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVfJVj5z8s

A Supreme Court for the Rich

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/books/review/supreme-inequality-adam-cohen.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

Why the U.S. Trade Deficit Can Be a Sign of a Healthy Economy

https://hbr.org/2018/07/why-the-u-s-trade-deficit-can-be-a-sign-of-a-healthy-economy

Big Business Is Overcharging You $5,000 a Year

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/opinion/big-business-consumer-prices.html

Roger Martin Harvard Business Review

https://rogerlmartin.com/archive/harvard-business-review

USC announces major financial aid expansion to benefit low- and middle-income families

https://news.usc.edu/165903/financial-aid-expansion-usc-low-middle-income-families/

Summary of the Great Transformation by Polanyi

https://weapedagogy.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/summary-of-the-great-transformation-by-polanyi/

Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion to Address Climate Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/technology/jeff-bezos-climate-change-earth-fund.html

Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno on Money, Power and a Call to Radical Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awP2BFm8G1g&feature=youtu.be

Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/02/breakdown-or-breakthrough-degrowth-and-the-great-transition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29 https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/breakdown-or-breakthrough-degrowth-and-great-transition/ richardian   https://julianagyeman.com/2012/09/21/just-sustainabilities/ Climate emergency: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/the-biodiversity-crisis-cant-be-solved-by-the-market/ Short-Term Thinking Is Poisoning American Business https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/opinion/sunday/capitalism-sanders-warren.html

Amazon Empire

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/amazon-empire/

The Passion Economy

https://www.passioneconomy.com/about-the-book

Pro Publica The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.”

https://www.propublica.org/people/jesse-eisinger

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets Hardcover –by Thomas Philippon (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674237544/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_NfHKDb9CYJG80

Socialism with a Spine

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/09/socialism-with-a-spine-the-only-21st-century-alternative

Two Histories of Financiers Profiting From Real Estate While Homeowners Go Belly Up

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/books/review-homewreckers-aaron-glantz-race-for-profit-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor.html

Big Tech’s Takeovers Finally Get Scrutiny What cool things have we lost because mammoth companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/opinion/ftc-investigation-google-facebook.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Schools are still segregated, and black children are paying a price

https://www.epi.org/publication/schools-are-still-segregated-and-black-children-are-paying-a-price/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=9d678bd8bc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_22_11_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-9d678bd8bc-59672925&mc_cid=9d678bd8bc&mc_eid=8b8bf1ef1f#

Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opinion/bernie-sanders-socialism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/02/psychologist-explains-why-economists-and-liberals-get-human-nature-wrong.html

How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools

https://independentmediainstitute.org/publisher-portal/?article_id=4941 https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/02/how-corporations-are-forcing-their-way-into-americas-public-schools.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

What Is Twenty-First-Century Socialism? John E. Roemer

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/three-pillars-of-socialism-sharing-economy-by-john-e-roemer-2020-02?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=9b7f0a8b94-op_newsletter_2020_02_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-9b7f0a8b94-93635693&mc_cid=9b7f0a8b94&mc_eid=c60f80c1d3&barrier=accesspay

Infinite Education Our aim is to provide a space for people to explore education, learning and change.

https://infed.org/mobi/ https://infed.org/mobi/bell-hooks-on-education/

What’s Better Than Planting a Trillion Trees?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/opinion/trillion-trees-trump-climate.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Transcending Capitalism: Three Different Ways?

Transcending Capitalism: Three Different Ways? http://www.socialisteconomist.com/2020/02/transcending-capitalism-three-different.html?amp=1

Unusual Arctic warming explained by overlooked greenhouse gases

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/unusual-arctic-warming-explained-overlooked-greenhouse-gases

Overspending on the Pentagon Won’t Make Us Safer

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/02/overspending-pentagon-wont-make-us-safer/162927/

CA Toxic oil wells Center for Public Integrity

https://publicintegrity.org/environment/wells-run-dry/californias-multibillion-dollar-problem-the-toxic-legacy-of-old-oil-wells/

screen capture

https://screencast-o-matic.com/plans?utm_source=awin&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=143466&awc=16296_1580938869_851763f0bd9fda4ac9fbfb98e26c0d3f

The Economy Is Not as Good as It Looks

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/opinion/trump-economy-election.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Population Loss Affects Most Counties, Nearly Every

 State https://ritholtz.com/2020/02/population-loss/

Diversifying Economics

http://diversifyingecon.org/index.php/Main_Page

Krugman on Zombie Ideas

https://www.pbs.org/video/paul-krugman-a3me5x/

Smart Thinking If It's Unsustainable, Why Does It Feel So Good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vCeVPzv9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl42BUqZn1c

Why we are Polarized Ezra Klein's new Book

https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast?__c=1

Capital Isn't Podcast good stuff

https://www.capitalisnt.com/show-notes/