Can John Maynard Keynes teach us anything new for dealing with the problems created by the covid-19 pandemic? Hasn’t his thought been thoroughly integrated into current economics? (“We’re all Keynesians now.”) We can learn something, argues Zachary Carter, maintaining that…
Category: Ethics
Review: “Bitter Medicine” by Sara Paretsky
This is the 4th novel in the V. I. “Vic” Watshawski, P. I., series, an interesting story of murder and medicine, set in 1985 or ’86. The central issue is, who killed Dr. Malcolm Tregiere, the assistant at the women’s…
Bowling Alone: Who does watching the Super Bowl hurt?
frankieleon Like millions of others, I need to decide whether I’m going to watch the Super Bowl. In other years that choice was either a no-brainer or simply a matter of pragmatics (do I have a papers I need to…