As I mentioned in a prior post, I am going to be playing around with monthly Current Population Survey microdata to produce some datasets of interest to me. Today I decided to look into what percent of the employed adult civilian population answered that they were absent from work due to a labor dispute. The… Continue reading Neat labor strike data from the CPS
Author: Matt Bruenig
Problems with a left moral and political narrative
A leftist project in the United States needs to both be technically sound and politically persuasive. As Bhaskar Sunkara has often pointed out, the left right now is much too obsessed with the technical “wonky” side of the project. As a result, the moral and political arguments get neglected, and conservative moral and political narratives… Continue reading Problems with a left moral and political narrative
Introducing Datasets Project — First Up, Disability
Partly to better familiarize myself with the Current Population Survey and partly because I have a hard time finding certain important information, I have started a Datasets Project. I will track certain social statistics on an ongoing basis and update the datasets as the new numbers come in. For now, all of the datasets will… Continue reading Introducing Datasets Project — First Up, Disability
John Quiggin criticizes socializing finance
John Quiggin of Crooked Timber fame has a post on the Jacobin website today critiquing a recent article on socializing finance by Seth Ackerman. After Ackerman’s piece was published, I wrote two sympathetic posts (I, II) about the idea of socializing finance. Quiggin is skeptical. In his response, Quiggin does not appear to take exception… Continue reading John Quiggin criticizes socializing finance
Kant’s great dodge
At one point in Theory and Practice, Kant sets out to establish who should have voting rights. In one very fascinating paragraph, he concludes thusly: Anyone who has the right to vote on this legislation is a citizen (citoyen, i.e. citizen of a state, not bourgeois or citizen of a town). The only qualification required… Continue reading Kant’s great dodge