The Hamas attack on 7th October, 2023 shaked the Israeli nation in it’s foundations. Occupation becomes Normality Jews had acquired an illusion of safeness about living in their Jewish republic. The unruly palestinians were kept at pace outside walls and fences or by heavy policing within. The ruly palestinians were pacified by access to Israeli jobs and pieces of that cake. The IDF had control in the territories and the PLA cooperated submissively....
The Decline of America Anusar Farooqi (‘Policy Tensor’) has provided an excellent discussion1 of how the decline of America come about and what can(?) be done to reverse it - and why Trump does not have the answers. He does not discuss who have been responsible for the decline or whether it could have been omitted. In my mind there is one culprit: liberalism. Let me explain: The Law of The Market Society Liberalism potently exploits egoism - calling for individual freedom (of enterprise) and forgetting the importance of collective values and equality of rights and endowments....
Branko Milanovic thinks human needs are infinite and that both Keynes and Marx where wrong to think otherwise. Even best among the economists, like Ricardo and Keynes (in “The economic prospects of our grandchildren”) thought that human needs are limited. We should know better today: the needs are unlimited and because we cannot forecast the exact movements in technology, we cannot forecast what particular form such new needs will take. But we know that our needs are not finite....
It’s day 14 of Putins invasion in Ukraine. More than 2 million Ukrainians have fled the bombardments. Ukrainians are fighting heavily back - delaying the Russians. Ukraine is asking Nato to establish a ‘No-fly Zone’ - and enforce it! Nato say’s ‘No’. Ukraine is asking for fighter jets. Poland has offered Soviet-era MIGs - if the alliance takes the responsibility of delivry into Ukraine. (Transfer them to Ramstein and let the US send them to Ukraine)....
To solve the Climate Crisis increasing economic productivity and energy efficiency is not sufficient. Absolute decoupling of economic growth and environmental degradition, including global warming is not feasible (Hickel and Kallis (2019) Is Green Growth Possible?). We will have to stop economic growth itself or even degrow on a global scale. Growth economists have always had models that in the long run end in a steady state. That’s just mathematics. Many economists have been thinking about ‘steady state economics’ for a long time....