Economics and Ethics

Highlights

If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work (16 August 2012)
Invaders from Mars (December 2010)

2021

No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees (7 January 2021): the founder of Gumroad points at a different way forward

2020

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says (17 December 2020)
No trickle-down: Tax cuts for rich fuel inequality, study finds (16 December 2020)
Musicians And Other Artists To Get €325 Per Week In Universal Basic Income Scheme (18 November 2020)
A B.C. research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were 'beautifully surprising' (7 October 2020)
Traditional publishing faces print distribution and ebook pricing ‘train wreck,’ says Kristine Kathryn Rusch (10 September 2020)
Why Bertrand Russell's argument for idleness is more relevant than ever (5 August 2020)
Why Are We So Quick To Scrutinise How Low-Income Families Spend Their Money? (16 June 2020)
On Odious Debt (29 May 2020)
Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being (6 May 2020)
Japan to Fund Firms to Shift Production Out of China (8 April 2020)
Welcome to the Bullshit Economy (4 February 2020)

2019

The Psychological Impacts Of Poverty, Digested (3 December 2019)
Microsoft Japan's four-day week trial boosts productivity by 40% (5 November 2019)
Rich people are hoarding cash, and wealth managers are getting frustrated (3 September 2019)
Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align (23 August 2019)
Trump’s recession risk rises (14 August 2019)
Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China's economy and may trigger central bank response (28 June 2019)
The Gig Economy Is White People Discovering Servants (19 June 2019)
Paper-towel dispenser with a EULA prohibiting rival brands of paper (19 June 2019)
Where Are These “Golden Years” We Were Promised? (16 June 2019)
Uber is upset that its underpaid drivers are gaming the app (June 2019)
The cost to Uber and Lyft if drivers were employees (14 June 2019)
Half of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. What The? (31 May 2019)
Amazon can automatically fire warehouse workers for 'time off task' (April 2019)
Death Star Economics (21 March 2019)

2018

Japan's Hometown Tax (19 October 2018)
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise (27 August 2018)
Cash Free (also Alex Schroeder) (26 July 2018)
Alex Schroeder on Capitalism (24 June 2018)
Bike Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles (March 2018)
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance (1 March 2018)

2017

Productivity is dangerous (18 December 2017)
We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made. (13 October 2017)
Danish Companies Seek to Hire, but Everyone’s Already Working (28 February 2017)

2015

Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grow-Up Economics (22 July 2015)
Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money (17 July 2015)
Analyzing Budweiser's Hypocritical, Anti-Craft Beer Super Bowl Ad (February 2015)

2014

The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind (12 December 2014)
Recession in Russia, revolt in Venezuela? The knock-on effects of tumbling oil prices (16 October 2014)
Almost a million working parents forced to go hungry to pay the rent (28 August 2014)
I studied engineering, not English. I still can’t find a job. (27 August 2014)
Shocking Picture of What Life Will Look Like When You Can’t Afford to Retire (August 2014)
New Report Challenges The Whole 'IP Intensive Industries Are Doing Well Because Of Strong IP' Myth (8 August 2014)
Why to avoid advertising as a business model (15 June 2014)
Study: Millennials Poised to Shake Up Corporate America (28 May 2014)
10 Reasons You Have To Quit Your Job In 2014 (7 April 2014)
The Economics of Entitlement: Does Money Make You Mean? (12 March 2014)
Why every digital marketing agency should try running their own sex shop (27 February 2014)
5 reasons why you shouldn’t work too hard (21 February 2014)
The Passion Gospel (10 February 2014)

2013

Company's Amazing Reply to a Raging Customer Has Fans and Orders Pouring In (13 December 2013)
Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs | The Onion (3 November 2013)
The Rise of Invisible Work (October 2013)
This Isn't Capitalism — It's Growthism, and It's Bad for Us (October 2013)
Cropmobster: Connecting the Dots Between Farms, Food Waste and Hunger (30 September 2013)
Why Talented Creatives Are Leaving Your Shitty Agency (September 2013)
In praise of laziness (17 August 2013)
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields (19 June 2013)
The Sharing Economy: A Conversation with Neal Gorenflo (May 2013)
Dollar could be in danger as the world’s currency (May 2013)
Europe's Record Youth Unemployment: The Scariest Graph in the World Just Got Scarier (May 2013)
How Austerity Kills (13 May 2013)
How Workers Laid Off from a Chicago Factory Took It Over Themselves (6 March 2013)
La production de pétrole du groupe Total décline pour la 8ème année (13 February 2013)
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners And Modern Management (16 January 2013)
Programmer Interrupted (January 2013)

2012

What is actually going on in Iceland (29 December 2012)
Motivation and Reward (28 December 2012)
More Young Americans Are Homeless (19 December 2012)
The Goldman Sachs Project to take over Europe nearly complete (26 November 2012)
Japanese Stocks? Yes, They Really Think So (13 November 2012)
Manuel Castells on the rise of alternative economic cultures (31 October 2012)
Why there’s less high-frequency trading (15 October 2012)
Shareable: Oxytocin: The Moral Molecule That Makes Us Share [Video] (8 October 2012)
Productivity for what? (1 October 2012)
an open letter in response to amy, re: musicians, volunteering, and the freedom to choose. - Amanda Palmer (13 September 2012)
Why I Volunteered To Play With Amanda Palmer (13 September 2012)
Future of Work: Custom Printed Bodies and the End of the 9-to-5 Job (4 September 2012)

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