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As published in Critique, based on a presentation given at the China Academy of Sciences, School of Marxist Studies in Beijing in November 2009, and at the Left Forum in New York City, March 20, 2010. Classical economists developed the labor theory...

‘The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die’ by Niall Ferguson (Penguin Press; June 13, 2013) Table of Contents: i. Introduction/Synopsis PART I: WHY NATIONS SUCCEED AND FAIL: THE GREAT RECONVERGENCE, THE GREAT DIVERGENCE...

LATEST: The minutes from the FOMC's October meeting are out. According to Bloomberg, the FOMC saw little change in the economic outlook since the September meeting. It also said that while the impact of the government shutdown would be temporary and...

From James Harkin (Webmaster & Editor of LindseyWilliams.net). Here is a summary of articles of interest from around the world for this week. Please LIKE the Lindsey Williams Online Facebook Page to see stories posted daily regarding the current...

It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean...