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Krugman Wonks Out: Why Doesn’t Cutting Taxes on the Wealthy Work?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/tax-cuts-rich.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage  

Open Markets Institute

https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/  

Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/05/bill-gates-climate-crisis-farmland?link_id=25&can_id=86f6d5f0d9872479e0b668a678ad631b&source=email-stop-aapi-hate-sharemycheck-artists-for-a-solidarity-economy&email_referrer=email_1136987&email_subject=40-acres-and-a-mall-black-solidarity-economy-fund-health-over-profits&fbclid=IwAR0XCPsaPCGqvKxAkmnAAOZJqf70iYH4kkpJEAtbo7zBiKWyvX2fwl_GlAM  

The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other  

Race and the Coming Liberal Crackup

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opinion/race-police-violence-liberalism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage  

Why Barack Obama Was a Horrible President

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/04/why-barack-obama-was-a-horrible-president.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29  

Amy Klobuchar on Breaking Up Giant Corporations

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/books/review/antitrust-amy-klobuchar.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage  

How to Get Back Into the Job Market

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/travel/job-market-tips.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage  

Why Are Democrats Pushing a Tax Cut for the Wealthy?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/opinion/salt-deduction-democrats.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage  

Understanding Multilateral Institutions in Easy and Hard Times Annual Review of Political Science

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050918-042625#_i7  

Does National Debt Still Matter? America's Gamble

https://youtu.be/EQ55BY7NKVk  

The Woman Who Shattered the Myth of the Free Market

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/opinion/joan-robinson-economy-monopoly-labor.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage  

From an Un-Caring Economy to a Caring Economy: The Tax Justice Network Podcast, April 2021

https://www.taxjustice.net/2021/04/22/from-an-un-caring-economy-to-a-caring-economy-the-tax-justice-network-podcast-april-2021/  

Make Tax-Dodging Companies Pay for Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/opinion/sunday/biden-taxes-companies.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Sunday%20Review  

One Way to Get People Off the Streets: Buy Hotels

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/business/california-homeless-hotels.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage  

New Rule: Give It to Me Straight, Doc | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3gy_CLXho&t=451s  

If You Care About Social Justice, You Have to Care About Zoning

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/opinion/if-you-care-about-social-justice-you-have-to-care-about-zoning.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage  

Cities J Jacobs and P Gordon

https://cosmosandtaxis.org/ct-423/  

Arguing with Zombies--Adam Tooze

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n08/adam-tooze/the-gatekeeper  

Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism has become 'techno-feudalism' | UpFront

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jW0xUmUaUc  

Wisdom Isn’t What You Think It Is

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/opinion/wisdom-attention-listening.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage  

Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries

https://stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/people/gornick-janet/  

How do coronavirus variants form and will the current vaccines work against them?

https://youtu.be/FOK-yvXCcGo

Public Debt: how much is too much? | The Economist

https://youtu.be/AaS3ywvuuTQ  

GREAT! Krugman Wonks Out: Why Was Trump’s Signature Policy Such a Flop?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/opinion/trump-corporate-tax-reform.html  

Union Loss May Bring New Phase of Campaign Against Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/business/economy/amazon-labor-unions.html  

They Overcame Mutual Loathing, and Saved a Town

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opinion/sunday/loggers-environmentalists-oregon.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=OpEd%20Columnists  

TIE The importance of Taleb’s system: from the Fourth Quadrant to the Skin in the Game

https://voxeu.org/content/importance-taleb-s-system-fourth-quadrant-skin-game  

Explaination of Biden's thinking--Ezra Klein

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-brian-deese.html  

Can We Trust Economists?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/books/review/the-economists-hour-binyamin-appelbaum.html  

Corporate Taxes Are Wealth Taxes And their decline has led to a steep drop in tax rates for the affluent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/briefing/biden-corporate-tax-astrazeneca-vaccine-particle-physics.html http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SZ2019Slides.pdf?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210408&instance_id=28991&nl=the-morning&regi_id=18833734&segment_id=55179&te=1&user_id=56fd0b1d4d68fa5248bf11a4f56874da  

The Death of the Last Juma Elder in the Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/opinion/international-world/juma-people-brazil-amazon.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage  

Why Companies Are Becoming B Corporations

https://hbr.org/2016/06/why-companies-are-becoming-b-corporations   https://www.lifteconomy.com/

The Monopolists and the Pandemic: What Covid-19 Teaches Us About Concentrated Power

https://promarket.org/2020/10/18/monopolists-pandemic-covid-19-concentrated-supply-chain/  

Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e449c8c3ef68d752f3e70dc/t/5f4cffea23958d79eae1ab23/1598881772432/Amazon_Report_Final.pdf   https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/stopping-amazons-union-busting-worker-surveillance

Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/chicago-school-economists-got-it-wrong-strong-antitrust-policy-boosts-the-economy  

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/commuting-kills-productivity-and-your-best-talent-suffers-most