UUJECToday, Feb. 28, 2025, has been designated “Economic Blackout Day” , a day to avoid shopping in major corporate stores such as Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and the… Continue Reading It’s Economic Blackout Day!
by Francis Fukuyama, 2002 A Review: Enlightenment Principles Sure Beat Identity Politics, but We Need Global Principles to Survive Fukuyama adopts a welcome centrist approach to classical liberalism:… Continue Reading Liberalism and its Discontents
America’s Dangerous Repeat of China’s Cultural Revolution by Mike Zhao, 2022 A Review: “Earth Culture, Not Cancel Culture” Mike Zhao and his family lived through the horrors of… Continue Reading Critical Race Theory and Woke Culture
by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, 2018 Buy low and sell high—the best advice for those who want to make money. But there’s a problem with that.… Continue Reading The History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, 2018 The “these truths” in this book’s title refer to the truths enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. Lepore… Continue Reading These Truths
by Steve Keen, 2017 Steve Keen is the world’s leading heterodox economist, so when he speaks, I listen. In this little book, he sums up his model of… Continue Reading Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System By T.R. Reid, 2017 T.R. Reid draws on impressive global reporting (as in The Healing of… Continue Reading A Fine Mess
An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science by Clair Brown, Ph.D, 2017 Berkeley economist Clair Brown got fed up with free-market economics and turned to Buddhism. She sought… Continue Reading Buddhist Economics
Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streek, 2016 In this provocative collection of essays, Streeck lays out capitalism’s self-destructive dynamics, “spreading like cancer. . . feeding parasitically… Continue Reading How Will Capitalism End?
by George Lakey, 2016 How the Scandinavians Got It Right – and How We Can, Too This is a very readable and down-to-earth book that dispels a flood… Continue Reading Viking Economics