I got back from a five day trip to Chicago yesterday, and as such, was able to catch up on a lot of my magazine reading. A review that caught my attention was Amitabh Pal, of The Progressive Magazine, review of Ha-Joon Chang’s recent book 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. For those […]
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Jul19th2011
The Progressive Magazine On Ha-Joon Chang’s Book
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General and ModernPolitics. 11 CommentsMar31st2011
Hans Rosling’s Ted Talk about the Washing Machine revolution and what it means to environmentalists:
Mar21st2011
If You Were Bill Gates, How Would You Solve Poverty?
Published by in Capitalism, Economics and General. 0 CommentsIf you were Bill Gates and had ten billion dollars to spend to solve poverty, what would you do? David Henderson, an economist at the Naval Postgraduate School, posed precisely that question to various economists at his school and those of us that read his blog. This is what I wrote:
I’ve actually been thinking about […]
Feb2nd2011
George Mason University economics professor explains:
Along the horizontal axis are within-country income percentiles running from the bottom 5% (1st ventile) to the top 5% (20th ventile). Along the vertical axis are world income percentiles.
The graph shows that the bottom 5% of Brazilians are among the poorest people in the world but the top 5% are […]
Dec22nd2010
Economist David Henderson, in a book review, states oil economics that many environmentalists lack:
Another problem, state Hubbard and Navarro, is that America’s heavy oil dependence makes our economy far more vulnerable to slower growth and recessions triggered by sudden price increases. But because oil is traded in a world market, we are […]
Nov30th2010
In Defense Of For-Profit Colleges
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), ModernPolitics, Personal and University. 1 CommentOne of the biggest blind spots of policymakers and pundits is the inability to take target market into account. For example, you can’t just compare the wages of employees at Hilton Hotels vs Motel 6’s and conclude that Hilton Hotels are superior because the employees are paid more. You have to take the companies vastly […]
Jul29th2010
Two Arguments In Favor Of Immigration
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and Personal. 9 CommentsWith the Arizona (anti-)immigration laws coming into affect soon, I have seen a lot of arguments in favor of immigration by those opposed to the Arizona laws. Most of them are either weak on economics, or miss the point completely. As a strong supporter of immigration, I thought I’d give two of my favorite arguments […]
Jul13th2010
I am admittedly weak on foreign policy and as of late I have been trying to catch up. I just finished Noam Chomsky’s book, Failed States and have tried to get my hands on as many debates as possible. So you can imagine my excitement when I found out that two of my favorite bloggers, […]
Jun4th2010
Milton Friedman On The Responsibility To The Poor
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Minimum Wage, Myths and Poverty. 0 CommentsYou need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Just as true in 1978 as it is today.
Mar3rd2010
The Effort To Keep Ethnic Studies Professors Employed
Published by in DayToDay, General and Personal. 5 CommentsAs someone who both grew up in Compton and attends UCSD, I feel compelled to comment on the recent race relation issues UCSD is having. As most of you have probably already heard, the whole thing started when UCSD students, outside the campus, had a “Compton Cookout”, where participants were to wear “chains, rapper-style urban […]
Feb1st2010
Obama, during the State Of The Union address, said:
“With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests –- including foreign corporations –- to spend without limit in our elections. (Applause.) I don’t think American elections should […]
Jan29th2010
Obama gave a speech and responded to questions at the House Republican retreat in Baltimore. See the full video on C-Span here. The transcript can be found here.
I disagree with Obama on many things. Alot of which he discussed in this video. But it is clear from the dialogue that Obama has a far better […]
Jan7th2010
More On Majors And Why Chicano Studies Is Garbage
Published by in Chicanoism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Personal. 15 CommentsA frequent topic of discussion in my family is what university, what major and the return to investment my sister should pursue after finishing high school. My dad is a man of modest means and is the only bread winner in a family of five - 3 children of which, have yet to pursue a […]
Oct30th2009
Is Racism Still Important?
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and ModernPolitics. 2 CommentsA continued theme on Matthew Yglesias blog is that conservatives in general are more concerned with anti-racism than racism, this is how he explains it:
“…most conservatives, think that the preeminent racial problem in the United States is that white people are too put upon by political correctness. Conservatives are very very very concerned about this […]
Aug20th2009
The first national LATISM Heritage Tour will kick off in Houston, Texas on September 24, 2009. The tour, which coincides with Hispanic Heritage Month, will bring together the greatest minds in social media today with stops in New York, Houston and Orlando.
In recognition of the growing buying power and increased market […]
Aug19th2009
For repudiating stupid people like this:
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People like this make me sick.
