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Markets, Power and Economic Policy

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business
Jared Bernstein

When economic "rents" or market failures provide economic benefits to weaker groups -- those with less stature or power in society -- efforts to eradicate such "inefficiencies" may further empower dominant elites in ways that are counterproductive for the larger society.

A Forehead Tatoo Too Big To Fail

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.13.2012 | Business

America has placed too much faith in the power of markets for the past 30 years, a belief not even the financial crisis could shake. The country risks...

Five Reasons Free Markets Don't Work in Health Care

Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 06.05.2012 | Politics
Abdulrahman El-Sayed

Although an issue like health care certainly reflects many of the broader ideological schisms in our political debate, amiss in ideological debates like these is the technical reality of the unique challenge posed by health care.

Religion And Faith-Full Politics

Paul Stoller | Posted 05.23.2012 | Religion
Paul Stoller

Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so much energy to religious practices?

Up Is Down and Down Is up -- Alice in America's Wonderland

Steve Nelson | Posted 03.16.2012 | Home
Steve Nelson

The recent decision to axe an ethnic studies program in Tucson is symptomatic of a bewildering turn of events in our country.

Why Libertarians Are Wrong on Free Trade

Ian Fletcher | Posted 08.17.2011 | Business
Ian Fletcher

Like it or not, even a capitalist economy is a system in which your actions affect other people. Your freedom to swing your fist ends, famously, at the tip of my nose, and what you buy and don't buy affects other people.

Atlas Shrugged? Pertinent Today?

Laura Mola | Posted 06.18.2011 | Entertainment
Laura Mola

Depression, people on the streets, begging, homelessness, the end of the American Dream -- sounds like today. Well, today in the new Ayn Rand movie At...

Kentucky Oops: Grandmama and the Senator

Rob Warmowski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Rob Warmowski

Since the first time Jarrod scored thirty points as a high school freshman, he had been causing a stir. The points brought scouts, the scouts brought recruiters. But they all had the same interested in Jarrod.

Tea Party Republicans Should Tackle Federal Role in Distorting Markets and Causing Bubbles.

David Paul | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
David Paul

It did not take long for the conflicts to emerge as Republicans struggle to make good on their commitments to reduce federal spending. In the wake of ...

What I Believe (about Markets and Morals): A Reply to Jerry Coyne & My Critics

Michael Shermer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Michael Shermer

In his endearingly titled blog, "Michael, we hardly knew ye," the venerable evolutionary biologist and slayer of creationist dragons Jerry Coyne (auth...

How Free-Marketers Came to Rule

Roya Wolverson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Roya Wolverson

In the United States, where bankers continue to rule the Obama administration's economic team, the idea of government teaming up with business to drive long-term innovation and growth is still struggling to gain attention.

Let's Do Everything Like Health Care

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Philip Goldberg

I'm so convinced that the private market will make everything better that I think we should do it across the board. Let's start with firecare. Why should I pay for firecare services for people who are dumb enough to start fires?

Is Richard Posner Destroying the Chicago School of Economics?

Damien Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Damien Hoffman

Although Posner still walks the intellectually gutted halls of the University of Chicago, he has no reservation helping tear their remaining ruins down from within.

The Orphan Of The American Political Spectrum

Patrick Maines | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Patrick Maines

Were one to design a political philosophy calculated to appeal to large numbers of "conservatives" and "liberals," it might look very much like contemporary libertarianism.

Capitalism: A Propaganda Hate Film

Michael Shermer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michael Shermer

In Michael Moore's worldview, a goodly portion of the American people are ignorant, uneducated, clueless pinheads too stupid to realize the fundamental principle of a loan.

Left, Right & Center: Haiti, the Banking Commission, and the Massachusetts Special Election

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
HuffPost Radio

We are witnessing one of humanity's most unbearable tragedies following the earthquake in Haiti. It allows us to ask: Is this as much a story about poverty and failed governance as it is of natural disasters?

Free-Market Conservatives Are Just Wrong

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dave Johnson

Conservative free-market conservative ideologues manage to make a bad thing out of paying American workers good wages and benefits.

Putting Kids In Jail For Profit

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dave Johnson

In Pennsylvania they caught two judges jailing kids for profit. I think it would be a good idea to look into all situations of people of all ages being sentenced to any privately-run facility.

Paint McCain a Red-Baiter

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Leo W. Gerard

The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.

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

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
HuffPost Radio

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

What Does "Change" Really Mean?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Cenk Uygur

Barack Obama needs to stop talking about nebulous, floating on a cloud change. And start talking about how he is going to kick these people's asses. We need someone to take our government back.

Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.