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The Return of the Politics of Debt

By On August 24, 2011

Yesterday I saw Doug Henwood interview the anthropologist David Graeber about his new book about debt. It was a fascinating discussion, and it made me decide that I’m going to have to read the book, despite it coming in at 500 pages and being a bit overpriced in its e-book edition.

One of [...]

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Anti-Star Trek Revisited

By On July 21, 2011

One of the best things about having something you wrote go flying around the Internet for a few days is that you get lots of feedback and ideas from interesting people with whom you’d normally never interact. This is the promise of what Brad DeLong called the “invisible college,” and I must say I’m really enjoying it. [...]

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Artificial Scarcity Watch: JSTOR Edition

By On July 20, 2011

Apparently Internet activist Aaron Swartz has been indicted for downloading articles from JSTOR, the database of academic journal articles. Note that Swartz had legal access to the database through MIT, he’s just being accused of downloading too many articles.

It’s not quite as simple as that, of course. There is some stuff in the indictment about him [...]

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