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7 Great Books By Economists

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Adam Smith, Economics, Milton Friedman, Amartya Sen, Money, Books, Economics Books, Making Globalization Work, Slidepoll, Globalization, Stiglitz, Obama, Capitalism, Books by Economists, The Next Stage, The Wealth of Nations, Economic Policy, Keynes, Galbraith, Economists, Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity, Books News

There's a major panel discussion going on today in Washington, D.C. called "The Next Stage," in which economists are coming together to discuss the pr...

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Olympia Snowe Still Opposes Public Option Because it's Too Good

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, Joe Lieberman, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe Public Option, Olympia Snowe Health Care Reform, Olympia Snowe Health Care, Snowe Health Care, Snowe Public Option, Health Care, Politics News
Jonathan Weiler

Snowe's blindly ideological view on health care asserts, against common sense, that even when the outcome is likely to be inferior, we should prefer "private" solutions.

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Screaming Joe Wilson: Newt Gingrich's Frankenstein

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, 1994 Elections, Wall Street Bailout, New Orleans, National Security, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Frankenstein, Newt Gingrich, Wall Street Bonuses, Rep. Joe Wilson, War Profiteering, Contract With America, Pakistan Democracy, Afghanistan War, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

If congressional politics are inside baseball, Newt Gingrich completely upended the playing field. Joe Wilson isn't an accident, he's an outcome.

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform, Part 2: What Is the Size Glove of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand?

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, Joe the Nerd, Conservative, Single Payer, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Mandates, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

We need the government to create the environment where small business can make a buck, just like Adam Smith would have wanted it.

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform: Part 1:Get Rid of Unsightly Unfunded Mandates

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, Joe the Nerd, Conservative, Single Payer, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Mandates, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

I just don't get it. You get a guy in the White House who is offering business the biggest tax break of our lifetimes, and he gets snubbed by every right-winger.

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Health-Care Reform was the Key Issue in the 2008 Campaign...What Happened?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Campaign, Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, Corporate Media, Hmos, Health Care Debate, President Barack Obama, Health Care Town Hall Meetings, George W. Bush, Tea Baggers, Health Care Elites, Single Payer, Big Pharma, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance Corporations, Paul Baran, Elites, Tom Delay, Billy Tauzin, The Wealth of Nations, Health Care, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Corporations, Pharmaceutical Industry, Thomas Scully, Adam Smith, Town Halls, John McCain, Democrats, Sarah Palin, Republican Party, Health, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

For some, the system works best when elites make the most fundamental decisions for our society, unencumbered by the trappings of "democracy", and when the population is depoliticized, misinformed, or both.

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Healthcare and Government's Role in the Economy

Stephen Herrington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, Government, Minimum Wage, Economy, Wages, Health, Economic Crisis, Capitalism, Healthcare, Republicans, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

The unsung dirge of this health care nightmare is that health care increased in pricing even while their customers paychecks did not increase. And that is the real issue.

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London Diary: Gordon Brown's Obsessions, The Loyal Opposition's Cuddly Karl Rove, Bad Germs, and the Most Unusual Royal Honeymoon Ever

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Adam Smith, Gordon Brown, Guardian Conference, Frances Osborne, United Kingdom, Princess Michael, Sophie Winkleman, Travel, George Osborne, London, Sarah Brown, World News
Arianna Huffington

I just ended three days in London that were like a cram session in British politics -- ranging from a conversation with Gordon Brown to dinner with Frances and George Osborne, the Tories' Shadow Chancellor.

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No Need to Oversimplify Poverty

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Poverty, Geography, Economics, Bill Easterly, Paul Collier, Africa, Corruption, Adam Smith, World News
Jeffrey Sachs

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a constellation of special challenges, with greater or lesser impact in different parts of the region. These challenges should be addressed forthrightly and in an integrated manner.

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Gun-Control Advocates Accidentally Side With NRA

CQ | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun-Control, Gregory W. Meeks, Ed Perlmutter, Nra, Guns, Second Amendment, Joe Courtney, Shelley Berkley, National Parks Guns, Bennie Thompson, Hank Johnson, Frank Pallone Jr., Patrick J. Kennedy, Melissa Bean, Adam Smith, Politics News

As they study the vote in Congress to ease gun restrictions in national parks, the National Rifle Association and gun-control groups agree on one impo...

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A Crisis of Character

Ronald J. Colombo | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, U.S. Economy, Moral Integrity, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Ronald J. Colombo

Adam Smith maintained that self-interest could fuel a successful economy only if it were narrowed by the constraints of traditional morality. Today, we are witnessing what happens when these constraints are relaxed.

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Country and Company: Part II - Aligning Goals

Ralph Gomory | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Adam Smith, Markets, Unemployment, Wall Street, Profit, Economy, Economic Crisis, Ceos, Business News, Us Financial Crisis, Shareholder Value, Business, Citigroup, Global Economic Crisis, Business News
Ralph Gomory

Without balanced trade productive companies operating in the United States are open to continuing assault from foreign entities advantaged by their governments.

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Country and Company: Part I - Divergent Goals

Ralph Gomory | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Citigroup, Markets, Unemployment, Profit, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Ceos, Economy, Us Financial Crisis, Business News, Shareholder Value, Business, Global Economic Crisis, Adam Smith, Business News
Ralph Gomory

While it is tempting to blame the succession of economic crises on greedy executives, sub-prime mortgage pushers and others of that ilk, it is in fact much more a system problem than a sudden widespread collapse of human nature.

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CON GAMES: Capitalism -- The God That Failed

Michael Conniff | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

Read More: The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, Business News
Michael Conniff

When it comes to capitalism under a putatively conservative administration, the emperor may have had no clothes but the God of the Free Market was buck naked.

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Charles Krauthammer is Genuinely Stupid

Ben Cohen | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Conservative, Charles Krauthammer, Adam Smith, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Journal, Economy, Republicans, Business News
Ben Cohen

Krauthammer wants the government to intervene and pump credit back into the economy, but heaven forbid they start to tell banks and industry how they must behave.

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Drunk British Reporter Video: Adam Smith, Birmingham Mail Obama Reporter, Caught On Tape Admitting Plagiarism

Huffington Post | Posted 12.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Steve Zacharanda, Video, Drunk British Reporter, Adam Smith, Birmingham Mail, Media News

A British reporter covering the 2008 Presidential election for the Birmingham Mail was caught on tape in a drunk rant, admitting plagiarism and acknow...

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Liberalism, What Are You Going As for Halloween?

Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Obama, Conservatism, Liberal, Liberals, Liberalism, Flag-Pin Lapels, WFTV, Liberal Economics, Karl Marx, Gun Control, Joe Biden, Big Government, Progressive Conservativism, Obama Socialism, Halloween Costumes, Senator Obama, David Brooks, Barbara West and Joe Biden, Socialism, Liberal Capitalism, Adam Smith, Free-Market Economy, Business News
Matt Mendelsohn

This year, it seemed certain that liberalism would show up at the Halloween block party wearing the costume of a self-loathing American: a terrorist-loving, non-flag-pin-lapel-wearing lefty.

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Andrew Sullivan Hasn't Read Adam Smith

Ben Cohen | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economics, Andrew Sullivan, Ron Paul, Adam Smith, Free Market Economy, Smith Economics, Economy, Agricultural Economy, Capitalism, Conservative Economics, Politics News
Ben Cohen

Andrew Sullivan is a self-styled Adam Smith conservative. The problem is, Sullivan, like most of his conservative friends, hasn't actually read Adam Smith's work.

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Whatever Happened To "The Magic Of The Marketplace" And "The Invisible Hand?"

Sandy Goodman | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, George Will, Enron, Treasury Secretary Paulson, Invisible Hand, Alan Greenspan, Capitalism, President Bush, Government, Adam Smith, Economy, Business News
Sandy Goodman

Many Americans still believe in the myth of the always perfect free market, in the face of irrefutable, worldwide evidence that there are times when it completely fails.

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The First Death Rattle of Our Unsustainable Economy (Part II)

Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Capitalism Fallacies, Regenerative Economics, Sustainability, Steady State Economics, Economy, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, Alternative Resources, Neoclassic Economics, Commerical Consumption, Economic Systems, Global Resources, Renewable Energy, Financial Crisis, Credit Default Swaps, Economic Theory, Green News
Rebekah and Stephen Hren

Since our current economic system is riddled with contradictions that are forcing its implosion as it abuts the physical limits of our planet, what do we do next?

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KCRW's Left, Right & Center 10.10.08/ECONOMY!

Huff Radio | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Free Markets, John McCain, Wall Street, Meltdown, Presidential Campaign, Credit Crisis, Barack Obama, Adam Smith, Economy, Presidential Debates, Media News
Huff Radio

This week, Arianna, Matthew, Robert and Tony debate the debate and the merits of capitalism.

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What Is Spiritual Capitalism?

ODE Magazine | Carleen Hawn | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living

Read More: The Giving Life, Spiritual Capitalism, Adam Smith, Living News

Spiritual capitalism doesn't mean prayer sessions on the shop floor and guided meditations in the boardroom. At least it doesn't have to. What it does...

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Digital Music and the Free Market

Max Keiser | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, Cartel, Mpaa, Copyright, Riaa, Swedish PIrate Party, Bernanke, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Amiestreet.com, Digital Music, Record Companies, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Marketing, Business News
Max Keiser

For years, Madonna pretended to be a vamp to make it big. Dupre is an actual hooker scoring big using the indie music site, aimestreet.com, which charges based on user demand.

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Hugo Chavez's Very Excellent Windfall Oil Profit Tax

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Petroleos De Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Opec, Commodity Trading, Venezuela, Adam Smith, Windfall Profits, Oil, Windfall Profits Tax, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Hugo Chavez is not a friend of ours, but he does come up with some good ideas, since we are dealing with a commodity that has left all ballast of free market determination far behind.

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