I am getting fed up personally paying the incomes of everyone else

So we could have a set of distributive institutions where I owned all of the social product. That’s conceivable. As it turns out, we do not have that set of distributive institutions. We have this other cocktail of things which is kind of pieced together haphazardly: some market wages, some transfers, some in-kind public benefits,… Continue reading I am getting fed up personally paying the incomes of everyone else

Unemployment still a huge problem

The so-called fiscal cliff has been dominating the political economics coverage of late. It is perhaps an exciting story from a politicking perspective, but fairly boring in just about every other respect. The conventional wisdom in an economy still reeling from a recession like this one is to cancel all the scheduled cuts and tax… Continue reading Unemployment still a huge problem

The anti-oppression paradox

According to the anti-oppression framework, you determine what anti-oppression requires by looking at what oppressed people say. To apply this framework you have to first know who the oppressed people are. The framework provides no real guidance on that. You cannot just listen to what oppressed people say about who oppressed people are: once again,… Continue reading The anti-oppression paradox