At the World Congresses of Families in Warsaw, Amsterdam, and Madrid, and the demographic summits in Moscow and Ulyanovsk,[1]I presented and updated a country-by-country model of fertility, which has since been published in my book Redeeming Economics.[2] I’d like to extend that analysis. We often assume that abortion is a tragic byproduct of our current […]
Read MoreProven Principles of Economic and Fiscal Sanity When the stock market dramatically and swiftly declined in September 2008, prompting Senator John McCain to suspend his presidential campaign and return to Washington, D.C., to discuss federal action to prevent a financial meltdown, it signaled that something was fundamentally wrong with the American economy. That jittery month […]
Read MoreThe Dismal Science:How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community Stephen A. Marglin Harvard University Press, 2008; 359 pages The best thing about The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community is the title. Stephen Marglin is absolutely right that something is wrong with modern economics, particularly its treatment of communities of all kinds, including the […]
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