Book Review
Jeffrey Sachs and “The Price of Civilization”
February 24, 2012Sachs is particularly good at showing where productive value from work is going.
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“Pity the Billionaire” recounts hijacking of public opinion
February 21, 2012Thomas Frank, ex-Wall Street Journalist turned liberal political savant, is currently the darling of the airwaves for NPR and Democracy Now fans.
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Media and power
February 7, 2012Canadian sociologist Jeffery Klaehn has put together a penetrating collection of essays dealing with the political economy of the mass media spanning a broad range of topics.
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Left on the bookshelf: “Blacks, Reds and Russians”
January 24, 2012There is a much less known story of another group of immigrants who sought freedom and opportunity, but it wasn't to America but to the Soviet Union that they fled.
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“Retirement Heist” shows how they stole the pensions
January 11, 2012Three decades ago, prior to Reagan's "Republican Revolution," 40 percent of America's retirees were receiving real, defined benefit pensions.
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