@sanitydotorg Libertarian, right? Gov's always the problem, never the solution? You're trying to engage people who think markets don't always operate perfectly; r&d in particular. This isn't the place to lay it all out, but check out work by Coase, Alchian, & Mancur Olson, to name a few. Gov has ...
Public venture capital funds in new enterprise allocated to maximize social and economic efficiency are the only way to employ a new generation of over-educated and underemployed Americans, increase export-oriented industry, create a new middle class, fill the void that the burst housing bubble l...
It is very hard to take this channel seriously. Don't get me wrong. It's entertaining. I watch everyday, especially the Alyona show. But RT constantly portrays the US gov as a power hungry imperialist capitalist machine while ignoring important Russian issues about democracy and social disparity....
AJ's bit on RT brought up several good questions about how RT presents stories & commentary it chooses to air. For example, there was little coverage of Russian elections in December 2011 or the protests that followed. You ignored it. At the same time you voiced support for OWS & criticized the r...
this is what happens when you put a sociologist, an economist, and a right wing neo-liberal from the Heritage Foundation into a room together to talk about political science: blah blah blah blah blah. seriously, why doesn't anyone care what political scientists have to say?. they're the only ones...
@sanitydotorg Libertarian, right? Gov's always the problem, never the solution? You're trying to engage people who think markets don't always operate perfectly; r&d in particular. This isn't the place to lay it all out, but check out work by Coase, Alchian, & Mancur Olson, to name a few. Gov has ...