Around The Dial – August 9, 2011
Economic policy reports, blog postings, and media stories of interest:
- Randall Wray describes a “Rube Goldberg Doomsday Machine.”
- Rortybomb is amazed by most states’ approach to prison labor.
- Crooked Timber runs down “the deficiencies of left neo-liberalism.”
- Economix looks at tie between deunionization and wage inequality.
- The Huffington Post explains “how Congress corrupted patent reform.”
- Joseph Stiglitz warns against “a contagion of bad ideas.”