A New Deal of the Mind?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 24th, 2009 5:34 am by HL
A New Deal of the Mind?
I am very grateful to James Galbraith for his post. It is very important to count in the people the government directly employed on the WPA and other programmes when calculating the impact on unemployment. James’s father’s analysis of…
The Right To A Useful and Remunerative Job
Theda Skocpol, as always, makes a compelling case for reweaving the social contract. But one crucial ingredient is missing in her list: organized labor. One of the greatest accomplishments of the New Deal was the National Labor Relations Act,…
Stimulus Bashing And The Secret CBO Report
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is supposed to be a non-partisan organization providing neutral analysis on budget and economic issues to members of Congress and the general public. CBO has generally adhered to the principle of careful neutrality regardless of…
