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"Citizen’s dividend or citizen’s income is based upon the principle that the natural world is the common property of all persons (see Georgism), [a system where] all citizens receive regular payments (dividends) from revenue raised by the state through...

turkey meaning syria : "senator, you'll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex" also 'destroys' is a bit much "Accounts of the Sept. 11 Benghazi incident in which four Americans died demonstrate that there is a profound misunderstanding...

That's not to say that paper money was unavailable before then. Even as the U.S. government minted nothing but coins, private banks, often called "wildcats" [PDF], began issuing what in effect ...

"Lafargue is part of a dissident socialist tradition, which insists that a politics for the working class must be against work. This is the tradition picked up by political theorist Kathi Weeks in her recent book, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism,...

video.pbs.org FRONTLINE examines why no Wall Street execs have been prosecuted for the financial crisis MARTIN SMITH: Is that really the job of a prosecutor, to worry about anything other than simply pursuing justice? LANNY BREUER: Well, I think I am...

“Yesterday, when Virginia state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) was away from the state capitol to attend President Obama’s inauguration, Virginia Republicans rushed through a gerrymandering bill that that could potentially transform the evenly divided Virginia...

"The IMMORTAL JELLYFISH (Turritopsis Nutricula) species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world which is immortal. Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit...

www.voxeu.org The efficient market hypothesis – in various forms – is at the heart of modern finance and macroeconomics. This column argues that market efficiency is extremely unlikely even without frictions or irrationality. Why? Because there are multiple...