That 3% GDP growth number was bizarre
While the jobs numbers had this big kind of mysterious revision, if they didn’t have the revision, then the jobs numbers were fully consistent with a 3% GDP growth we also so last week, and that’s even before the Big Beautiful Bill passes… — Kevin Hassett on Fox By now, the news that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported weak job growth for July and revised its estimates for May and June down very substantially has spread beyond the usual audience of connoisseurs. Though those revisions were large by historical standards,… Read More
Fresh audio product: boys talk, economists on inequality
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 19, 2024 Niobe Way, author of Rebels with a Cause, on the emotional and social lives of boys and what they’re telling us about society • Branko Milanovic, author of Visions of Inequality, reviews what economists have said about the topic over the centuries
Fresh audio product: austerity & fascism, AMLO’s presidency in Mexico
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 6, 2023 Clara Mattei, author of The Capital Order, explores the links among neoclassical economics, austerity, and fascism • Edwin Ackerman, author of this article, looks at AMLO’s presidency in Mexico
fresh audio product: varieties of correctional control, challenging mainstream economics
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 1, 2023 Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative talks about some underappreciated aspects of the carceral state: probation, parole, and civil commitment • Francisco Pérez of the Center for Economic Democracy on why mainstream economics is so terrible and an online course that can help civilians break through the discipline’s mystifications
Fresh audio product: porn work and styles of economics
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link, and apologies for the late posting): May 26, 2022 Heather Berg, author of Porn Work, on relations of production in sex work • Kevin Young and Leonard Seabrooke, co-authors of this paper, on the contrasting collegial styles of the Chicago and Charles River schools of economics
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 31, 2019 René Rojas, author of this article, on the social explosion in Chile • Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, author of this article, on the little problems, little answers approach of this year’s economics Nobelists
LBO News from Doug Henwood 