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Happy New Year -- Taking a holiday break
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Happy New Year -- Taking a holiday break

I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, January 7.
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Is Washington tacitly operating under a new monetary theory?
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Is Washington tacitly operating under a new monetary theory?

In 2002 when soon-to-be-dismissed U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill warned then Vice President Dick Cheney that the Bush administrati...
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Do we have the wrong model of human nature?
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Do we have the wrong model of human nature?

Are we wrong to believe that competitiveness must and always will be the central animating principle of human action? Media studies scholar ...
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Taking a short break - no post this week
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Taking a short break - no post this week

I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, December 17.
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Human well-being, economic growth and so-called decoupling
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Human well-being, economic growth and so-called decoupling

Some people claim that certain humans—called breatharians —can live on air alone. Others claim we can have economic growth without increasi...
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