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		<title>We fought the law, and we won (with the help of some other laws and good lawyers)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve years ago I was arrested on New Zealand Parliament Grounds during a protest, along with 74 others. It was my first year of uni. A bunch of us later sued the government for arbitrary arrest and false imprisonment. This year Beggs v Attorney General finally reached a conclusion with a settlement offer. (It&#8217;s in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scandalum.wordpress.com&blog=1076313&post=403&subd=scandalum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Choleric Economic Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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Recessions are part of human nature, says Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens [pdf]:
No country has managed to eliminate the business cycle. No country ever will, because the cycle is driven by human psychology, which finds expression in financial behaviour as well as ‘real’ behaviour. We are seemingly just made – ‘hardwired’, as some would put it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scandalum.wordpress.com&blog=1076313&post=400&subd=scandalum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DeLong wrong on Kalecki</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad DeLong damns Kalecki with praise:


I WAS EXPECTING A 6% PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH QUARTER, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!
Productivity increased 9.5 percent in the nonfarm business sector during the third quarter of 2009 as unit labor costs fell 5.2 percent (seasonally adjusted annual rates). In manufacturing, productivity increased 13.6 percent while unit labor costs fell 7.1 percent&#8230;
Back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scandalum.wordpress.com&blog=1076313&post=392&subd=scandalum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All that is solid melts into liquidity (and then sometimes freezes)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is a descendant of the paper I presented at Historical Materialism in London about a year ago. It&#8217;s an attempt to introduce a post-Keynesian conception of liquidity into Marx&#8217;s theory of credit-money. It has gone through a few versions. After the conference I was invited to present a longer version as a seminar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scandalum.wordpress.com&blog=1076313&post=386&subd=scandalum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Came from the Desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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Sydney does a good apocalypse. Our first Spring in Sydney, a plague of Bogong moths arrived, darkened the sky, coated the balcony for several days, then went back to their migration, though we kept finding stragglers for weeks. Today was much weirder.
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		<title>The Art of War by Sun Tzu AND The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Amazon.com Customer,
As someone who has purchased or rated books by Karl Marx, you might like to know that The Art of War by Sun Tzu AND The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx is now available.  You can order yours for just $9.95 by following the link below.
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		<title>Social democratic utopianism and capitalist realism</title>
		<link>http://scandalum.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/social-democractic-utopianism-and-capitalist-realism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an essay I wrote for a local newsletter. It&#8217;s fairly long and I thought about breaking it up across a few posts, but what the hell&#8230;
 
 &#8216;Social democracy&#8217; means a lot of different things to different people, and its meanings have slipped around over the decades. Once upon a time it could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scandalum.wordpress.com&blog=1076313&post=361&subd=scandalum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The new old economics</title>
		<link>http://scandalum.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/the-new-old-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Economist has a feature this week on &#8220;the state of economics&#8221; in the wake of the crisis. It&#8217;s worth a read as an overview of the PR battle between schools of thought within the mainstream.
The likes of Krugman and deLong are undoubtedly in the ascendancy. As I suggested a few months ago, I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scandalum.wordpress.com&blog=1076313&post=356&subd=scandalum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1.5 Conclusion</title>
		<link>http://scandalum.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/1-5-conclusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, having so much trouble fitting all my material on inflation theory into a couple of thousand words, so I&#8217;ve decided to make it a whole new chapter. The upside is that this chapter is finished! The downside is that all the chapter references above are now wrong! Here&#8217;s the summary of the chapter as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scandalum.wordpress.com&blog=1076313&post=353&subd=scandalum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing last</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikebeggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a review of Martin Wolf&#8217;s Fixing Global Finance Alex Callinicos takes a detour to gloat a little at Leo Panitch, who he had debated on political economy and imperialism just before this whole crisis thing broke out.
But plotting the course of a crisis that has undergone such dramatic twists and turns is a hazardous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scandalum.wordpress.com&blog=1076313&post=351&subd=scandalum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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