These articles are my attempt to define and explain some political and economic trends that have occurred over the last thirty years and accelerated in the first years of the 21st century. They are writings by academics, economists, journalists, and myself about government and corporate abuses concerning the war, the media, the environment, the law, the Constitution and a tendency toward corporatism. I am hopeful that these misuses of power have not become too irreversibly accepted and institutionalized and that with the 2008 election, some of these trends can be reversed. An important early step should be passage of a fair viable health care system with the public insurance option - by framing the debate in an intelligent effective manner.
Paul Krugman, recipient of 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics
Naomi Klein - four articles on economics, war and disasterFour by me - economics, money, the corporatocracy, and Orwell
Two more by me - William Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and archetypes
Health care proposals and debates:Principles of Health Care Reform
Framing the Health Care Debate
Structuring Health Insurance - Quality, Cost & Risk Assessments
The Logic of the Health Care Debate
H. R. 3962 - entire health care bill passed by the House on 11-7-09
Summary of H. R. 3962 by Representative John Dingell
Commentaries articulating a drift to the right-wing:Barry Beck - The Corporatocracy
Naomi Wolf - The End of America
The Influence of Conservative Think Tanks
Bradley - Conservatives after 1964
Report on the agenda of the Neo-Con foreign policy:The Project for a New American Century
Faith-based verses reality-based judgments:Suskind - reality vs. faith-based thinking - Without a Doubt
Hari - Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason
Blumenthal - Republican Gomorrah
Distortions of language for political manipulation:George Lakoff - Don't Think of an Elephant (first chapter)
George Lakoff - Thinking Points (first and second chapters)
Noam Chomsky - Rulers & the ruled: Dangerous disconnect
Harold Pinter - Art, Truth, and Politics
ECONOMICSJ. M. Keynes explained by Paul Krugman
J. M. Keynes explained by Paul Krugman (more simplified)
J. M. Keynes - Economic Possibilities
Paul Krugman - False arguments against economic action
Paul Krugman - Trade and Wages
Paul Krugman - Thirty Year Economic Decline
Naomi Klein - the first year of Iraqi occupation
Naomi Klein - the rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein - the Wall Street Crisis
Naomi Klein - Alan Greenspan debate
Ten Trillion Dollars - the price for eight years of Bush
Barry Beck - Discourse on Money, Finance, and Investment
Barry Beck - Thoughts on Economic Theories
Barry Beck - The Corporatocracy
Elizabeth Roccaforte on Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed
David C. Korten - When Corporations Rule
Noam Chomsky - Notes on NAFTA and Adam Smith
Amartya Sen - Adam Smith's market never stood alone
Warren Buffett - Trade Deficit - Squanderville vs. Thriftville
William Greider - Bailout of Wall Street
Bailout Analysis - Advantages, Disadvantages, Alternatives
Douglas K. Foley - Notes on the
Theoretical Foundations of Political EconomyHa-Joon Chang - Bad Samaritans:
The Myth of Free Trade & the Secret History of Capitalism
HISTORY
PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, and ARCHETYPESBarry Beck - A Jungian Analysis of Shakespeare's Tempest
Barry Beck - Ancient Archetypes and
Modern ManifestationsBertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy
Noam Chomsky - Language and Mind
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